An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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To 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?
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Self 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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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