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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Ayn Rand
Death, Truth, Words Of Wisdom
"Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand". Book by Nathaniel Brandon, 1989.

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

Ayn Rand
Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Integrity, Knowledge
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Honesty, Anger
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.228, Hamilton Books

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Liars, Lying
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice
"Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal".

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Ayn Rand
Peace, Truth, Freedom
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.224, Penguin

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Men, Numbers
Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.23, Penguin

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand
Truth, Knowledge, Mean
Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand
Cheating, Truth, Responsibility
Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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