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One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.Ayn Rand
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.Ayn Rand
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Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.Ayn Rand
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A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.Ayn Rand
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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
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To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love–because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.Ayn Rand
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The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.Ayn Rand
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The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history -All these are samples of racism.Ayn Rand
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Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.Ayn Rand
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The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.Ayn Rand
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.Ayn Rand
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No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .Ayn Rand
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There is no such thing as "the right to enslave". A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).Ayn Rand