To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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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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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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