Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
AYN RANDThe entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDJoy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RANDAs we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RANDA creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RANDDon’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDLearn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RANDThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDThere are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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