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An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself. – Ayn Rand

Hello no,i don’t surrender my goal is not to sacrifice that what i value to useful idiots who’d kill for collective i wasn’t born to be enslaved fight for my freedom don’t need an adjective for justice and i say

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. – Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. – Ayn Rand

A man’s ego is the fountain head of human progress. – Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. – Ayn Rand

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

Do not let the hero in your soul perish. – Ayn Rand

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. – Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand

It’s so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea. – Ayn Rand

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. – Ayn Rand

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” ― Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. – Ayn Rand

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. – Ayn Rand

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. – Ayn Rand

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

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. – Ayn Rand

We are nothing mankind is all – Ayn Rand

Such would have been our life, had we not committed our crime which changed all things for us. And it was our curse which drove us to our crime. – Ayn Rand

I THINK THE ONLY CARDINAL EVIL ON EARTH IS THAT OF PLACING YOUR PRIME CONCERN WITHIN OTHER MEN. I’VE ALWAYS DEMANDED A CERTAIN QUALITY IN THE PEOPLE I LIKED. I’VE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE–AND IT’S THE ONLY QUALITY I RESPECT IN MEN. I CHOSE MY FRIENDS BY THAT. NOW I KNOW WHAT IT IS. A SELF-SUFFICIENT EGO. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. – AYN RAND

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

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. – Ayn Rand.

Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” ― Ayn Rand

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” — Ayn Rand

“I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.” — Sara Shepard