Russian - Writer | February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand
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To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
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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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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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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 man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
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