Ayn Rand

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"... reason accepts no commandments."	Fear
"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."	Love
"An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."	Friendship, Dreams
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."	Money
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"	Money
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."	Government, Evil
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."	Government, Evil
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."	Happiness
"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?"	Economics, History
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."	Fear
"Ask youself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth."	Fear
"I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."	Philosophy
"The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."	Love, Conformity
"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."	Anti-Religion, Acceptance
"I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."	Wisdom
"Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach."	Philosophy
"Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach."	Wisdom
"To achieve, you need thought�. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."	Philosophy
"To achieve, you need thought�. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."	Wisdom
"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."	Wisdom

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