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Ayn Rand  Quotes
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

—Ayn Rand

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AchievementAdmirationAtlas-Shrugged
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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor–by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence–and every achievement is an expression of it.

—Ayn Rand

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I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of fame and I don’t mean he won’t die someday. But he’s living it. I think...

—Ayn Rand

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RomanceRomance-Novels
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She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward...

—Ayn Rand

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Music
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He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a...

—Ayn Rand

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CollectivismConventionSociety
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When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they...

—Ayn Rand

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HonestyPublic-Opinion
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The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

—Ayn Rand

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PleasureResponsibility
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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.

—Ayn Rand

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Against
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

—Ayn Rand

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Reason
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Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

—Ayn Rand

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Civilization
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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own – they have no inkling of...

—Ayn Rand

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AchievementAtlas-ShruggedInspirational
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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

—Ayn Rand

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EvilGoodPhilosophy
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Now take a human body. Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It...

—Ayn Rand

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harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature...

—Ayn Rand

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She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as...

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IngenuityProgressPurpose
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There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

—Ayn Rand

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HeavenLovePath-To-Happiness
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If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.

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MeaninglessnessNothing
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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...

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CharacterGreatest
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their “loved ones” or friends or business associates or political...

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AddictionEthicsMoral
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

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Man is an end in himself.

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IndividualismLifeObjectivism
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These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned...

—Ayn Rand

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Freedom
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So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and...

—Ayn Rand

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EconomyMoneyMoney-Issues
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Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one’s highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It’s...

—Ayn Rand

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Atheism
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The power of the sky can be made to do men’s bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose...

—Ayn Rand

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PrideScienceWill
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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...

—Ayn Rand

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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

—Ayn Rand

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EvilRequiresVictim
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There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that enemies could murder him at any moment and had to defend himself as best as he...

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CapitalismIndividualismObjectivism
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration...

—Ayn Rand

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

—Ayn Rand

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IdealismPhilosophy
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doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating...

—Ayn Rand

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Writing
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He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases...

—Ayn Rand

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Music
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Dagny,” he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, “think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and...

—Ayn Rand

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InventionSelf-AwarenessSociety
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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

—Ayn Rand

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I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone,...

—Ayn Rand

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PhilosophyPhilosophy-Of-Life
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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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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth.

—Ayn Rand

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CultureEthicsNeeds
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

—Ayn Rand

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Independence
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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision...

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

—Ayn Rand

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Philosophy
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Andrei, did you like the opera?””Not particularly.””Andrei, do you see what you’re missing?””I don’t think I do, Kira. It’s all rather silly. And useless.””Can’t you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?””No....

—Ayn Rand

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ArtBeautyMusic
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I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

—Ayn Rand

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But, you see, it’s not what you do that matters really. It’s only you.””Me what?””Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don’t know. Just that.

—Ayn Rand

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LoveRelationshipSelf-Lessness
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Dont switch the blame to her, that’s the oldest trick of all cowards

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Woman
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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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Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

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Virtue
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I’m not asking you to do your best. I’m asking you to do your job.” -Dagny Taggart

—Ayn Rand

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EthicsPhilosophy-Objectivism
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Who is John Galt?

—Ayn Rand

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First-LinesGaltObjectivism
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The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man’s nature...

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Philosophy
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welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is...

—Ayn Rand

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FreedomIndividualRationality
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