Ayn Rand on abandonment
Ayn Rand106 quotes“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
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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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Ayn RandAyn Rand An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Ayn RandAyn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
Ayn RandAyn Rand People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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?
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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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AnonymousAnonymous Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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