Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
AYN RANDI am done with this creed of corruption.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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