Popular Motivational & Inspirational Quotes by Ayn rand
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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.
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
