I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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