A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
- Ayn Rand Quote

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand Quote

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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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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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.
- Ayn Rand Quote

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
- Ayn Rand Quote

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Ayn Rand Quote

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
- Ayn Rand Quote

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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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.
- Ayn Rand Quote

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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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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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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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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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.
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
- Ayn Rand Quote

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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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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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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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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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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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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