Russian - Writer | February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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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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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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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
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