I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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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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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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