Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDA culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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