As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RANDRacism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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When 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.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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