Tag: Ayn Rand
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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.
Ayn Rand
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
Ayn Rand
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
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Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
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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.
Ayn Rand
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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 majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
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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.
Ayn Rand
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Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
Ayn Rand
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Ayn Rand