Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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A 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.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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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 keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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