Ayn Rand quotes - page 2

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. (Ayn Rand)
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
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Guilt is a rope that wears thin. (Ayn Rand)
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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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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I think, therefore I'll think.
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
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I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. (Ayn Rand)
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
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It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.
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