A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RANDSelf respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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