Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RANDI could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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