There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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