If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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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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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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