People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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