Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
AYN RANDDevotion 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.
AYN RANDShe did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDAs we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
AYN RANDPolitically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDA 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.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDJoy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RANDI worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDThe source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDNever think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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