My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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