Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
AYN RANDThe entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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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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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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