Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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 essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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