Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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 entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Man 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.
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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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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?
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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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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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