There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which... by Ayn Rand

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand

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This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

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The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing. by Ayn Rand

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

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Worry is a waste of emotional reserve". by Ayn Rand

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

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I don’t approve of religion. by Ayn Rand

I don’t approve of religion.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

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The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples... by Ayn Rand

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. by Ayn Rand

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

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The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

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The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them-from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.

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One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

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There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

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Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

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to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

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Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

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Man's character is the product of his premises. by Ayn Rand

Man's character is the product of his premises.

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You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

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The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion. by Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

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Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

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Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

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