Ayn Rand Quotes and Sayings (2)

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

~Ayn Rand

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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

~Ayn Rand

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

~Ayn Rand

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

~Ayn Rand

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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

~Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

~Ayn Rand 

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It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

~Ayn Rand 

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Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

~Ayn Rand 

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“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
('The Virtue of Selfishness', Chapter 12)  {WMail Issue #10}
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"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
{WMail Issue #12 and Dateline Chamesa blog 10/2007 & 2/2008}
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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
{WMail Issue #14}

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~Ayn Rand
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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
~Ayn Rand
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
~Ayn Rand 

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Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

~Ayn Rand 

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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

~Ayn Rand 

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

~Ayn Rand

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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

~Ayn Rand

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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

~Ayn Rand

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

~Ayn Rand

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