Ayn Rand quotes

Ayn Rand quotes

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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality”
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“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving”
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“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong”
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“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values”
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“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote, a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority, the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)
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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours”
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“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man the function of his reasoning mind”
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“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served, the man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master”
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“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want”
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“Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another”
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see”
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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them, one declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws”
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“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars, take your choice there is no other” 
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion, the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission, which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force”
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“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist, the fashionable non conformist” 
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