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.
AYN RANDReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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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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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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