Ayn Rand Short Quotes

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Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

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Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

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I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

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There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.

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She was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends.

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The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

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A building has integrity, just like a man, and just as seldom.

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To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins.

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The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

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He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

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To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

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Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

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A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

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It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

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You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

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In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

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The moral precept to adopt... is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

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Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

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