I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDI worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
AYN RANDMan will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
AYN RANDWhen I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDA government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDI love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
AYN RANDLive and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RANDShe did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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