I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
AYN RANDThe purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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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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