"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society……" — Ayn Rand
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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