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Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes (517)

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When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Statism needs war a free country does not. Statism survives by looting a free country survives by producing.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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It is a sin to write this.
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There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
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Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
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That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
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There can be no compromise on moral principles.
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What do I think of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.
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Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver
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We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.
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Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
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There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.
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The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
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Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.
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