"The purpose of morality is to teach you,……" — Ayn Rand
"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."
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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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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful…
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at…
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence,…
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