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Quotes By Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

Decision, Life, Perception

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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.

Ayn Rand

Power, Thinking

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Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Liberty, Society, Speech

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America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Ayn Rand

Fortune, Society, Wealth

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You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Ayn Rand

Action, Leadership, Thinking

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The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Ayn Rand

Leadership, Society

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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Ayn Rand

Responsibility, Society, Thinking

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A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

Ayn Rand

Society

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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Liberty, Work

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

Decision

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Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

Ayn Rand

Affirmation, Focus

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

Opportunity, Success

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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

Accountability

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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Ayn Rand

Learning

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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Ayn Rand

Character, Honor, Money, Respect

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Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

Ayn Rand

Self, Thinking

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When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Integrity, Leadership, Society, Work

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Oregon Coast

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

Truth

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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.

Ayn Rand

Character, Honesty, Integrity, Truth

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It’s a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Ayn Rand

Leadership

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I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Self-esteem

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Valley of Fire State Park

To be exact, writers are self-made.

Ayn Rand

Leadership, Self

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Lake Tahoe

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

Accountability, Action, Choice

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Grand Cayman

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

Ayn Rand

Happiness, Values

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Hawaii, Maui

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

Commitment, Self-esteem

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Hawaii, Maui

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.

Ayn Rand

Thinking

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Antelope Canyon

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Ayn Rand

Belief, Fear

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Lake Tahoe

Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.

Ayn Rand

Thinking, Wealth

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