Ayn Rand Quotes
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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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.
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Govevrnment "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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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.
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
- Ayn Rand Quotes The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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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.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
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Potentially, 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.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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