When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
AYN RANDYou can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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