I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
AYN RANDCapitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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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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