Russian - Writer | February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
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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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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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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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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
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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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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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