What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDPeople don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
AYN RANDI never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDThe smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
AYN RANDThe purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RANDI 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.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
AYN RANDLet 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.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDA 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.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDA creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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