Politically, 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 RANDI swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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