I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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