The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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