I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
AYN RANDI swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDMan 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.
AYN RANDAs we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RANDLearn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RANDPolitically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDA culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RANDThere is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
AYN RANDIf you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
AYN RANDYou love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDLet 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 RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDPeople 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.
AYN RANDMan cannot survive except through his mind.
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