A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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