The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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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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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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