Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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There 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.
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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.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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