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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Ayn Rand

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Corruption Done One Liner
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Civil Institution Production Survival System Violence War
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Break Up Die Live Moral
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Authority Consent Government Source
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
You 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.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Decision Evidence Ignorance
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Acceptance Choice Man Respect Responsiblity Retain Truth Wrong
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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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear

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