Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RANDSelf respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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