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.
AYN RANDTo sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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