An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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