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“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

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

“Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

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

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

“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.”

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”