The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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