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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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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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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