I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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