Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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 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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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.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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.
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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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