black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Ayn Rand

Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
AYN RAND

Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
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.
AYN RAND

Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
AYN RAND

Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
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?
AYN RAND

Compromise Easy Hard Life Sell Soul Understand World
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.
AYN RAND

Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RAND

Chemical Collection Delusion Man
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.
AYN RAND

Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RAND

Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
AYN RAND

Business Currency Deal Love Treatment Virtue
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RAND

Decision Evidence Ignorance
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RAND

Die Enjoyment Live Moral Purpose Suffering Teaching Yourself
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RAND

Crack Crime Government Power
I am done with this creed of corruption.
AYN RAND

Corruption Done One Liner
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RAND

Constitution Crime Man Protection
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
AYN RAND

Character Earn Honor Man Men Money Obtain Respect
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RAND

Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ayn Rand Quotes