It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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