If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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 hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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