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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, — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s educati — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man’s love of existence t — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave th — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let i — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of re — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murdere — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone’ — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in consciou — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the gui — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Thought—he told himself quietly—is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by whi — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did n — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged