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?
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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