The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDThe man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDI don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDMy happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
AYN RANDMoney is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
AYN RANDForce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
AYN RANDThe source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDA 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.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
AYN RANDWhen I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
AYN RANDI swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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