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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
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Literary Critic
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Philosopher
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.
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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
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When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
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If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
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A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
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but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
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It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
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It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.
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Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!
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