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title: "11 Checks Quotes By Ayn Rand"
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> [There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-contradictions-if-you-find-one-check-your-premises/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/even-in-dialogue-your-own-style-rules-your-selection-do-not-give/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/paper-is-a-check-drawn-by-legal-looters-upon-an-account-which-is-not/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/do-not-let-your-fire-go-out-do-not-let-the-hero-in-your-soul-perish/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-you-want-to-save-capitalism-there-is-only-one-type-of-argument/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-peace-were-the-goal-of-today-s-intellectuals-a-failure-of-that/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/poverty-is-not-a-mortgage-on-the-labor-of-others-misfortu-ne-is-not-a/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/what-i-want-you-to-understand-is-the-full-evil-of-those-who-claim-to/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-don-t-like-people-who-speak-or-think-in-terms-of-gaining-anybody-s/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-is-only-one-institution-that-can-arrogate-to-itself-the-power/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/judge-not-that-ye-be-not-judge-is-an-abdication-of-moral/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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## Other authors on Checks

## More by Ayn Rand

> [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

> [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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