| Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? |
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| The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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| The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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| If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase to make money. No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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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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- Ayn Rand |
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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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- Ayn Rand |
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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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- Ayn Rand |
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| The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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| The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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| It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. |
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- Ayn Rand |
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