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- That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- 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 (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- 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 (1905 - 1982), The Fountainhead (1943)
- Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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