Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings | Minimalist Quotes

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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Act Assume Devotion Hero Man Moral Noble Responsiblity Thinking Truth
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Problem
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Indifference Love Matter Valentine
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Existence Help Jail Natural Pretend State
Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Glance Glory Love Worship
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Always Corner Patience Reward Romance Round
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
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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Check Contradiction Existence Finding Wrong
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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Claim Human Liberty Produce Treatment Wealth
You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Labor Misfortune Mortgage Poverty
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Intend Man Master Sacrifice Slave Speak
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Consequences Evade Reality
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection

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