Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDMan will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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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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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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