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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time?

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

Ayn Rand
Country, Courage, Freedom

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand
Inspirational, Courage, Two Sides
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.102, Penguin

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

Ayn Rand
Courage, Pain, Dirty
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Ayn Rand
Courage, Choices Made, Bravery
Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.34, Penguin

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Ayn Rand
Courage, Integrity, Dedication
Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.179, Penguin

Get the hell out of my way!

Ayn Rand
Strength, Courage, Philosophy
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Ayn Rand
Happiness, Courage, Brother
"The Fountainhead".

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

Ayn Rand
Life, Courage, Betrayal
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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