It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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