Tag: Ayn Rand
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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.
Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
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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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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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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
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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
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
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God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand