Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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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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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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