Let 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 RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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 never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human 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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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