The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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