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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (519)

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All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.
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The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness the liberals, his body.
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Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
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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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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
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Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
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They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
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Her face lay still on the air under his face.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
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All work is an act of philosophy.
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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else
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Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.
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For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
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I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
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To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
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Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
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Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.
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Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.
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Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
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