If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
AYN RANDI 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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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?
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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 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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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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