Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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Man 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.
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