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.
AYN RANDCompromise 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.
AYN RANDTo love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDIf you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDI never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
AYN RANDSelf respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
AYN RANDA man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
AYN RANDTo say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
AYN RANDRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDDon’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
AYN RANDMan cannot survive except through his mind.
AYN RAND