Ayn Rand Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ayn Rand on Wise Famous Quotes.
Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any
We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future
if mankind is to have a future
if mankind is to have a future
Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
When nothing seems worth the effort - said some stern voice in her mind - it's a screen to hide a wish that's worth too much; what do you want?
If you believe that you have the right to force me - use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.
We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.
He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.
Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together.
The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
No battle was hard, no decision was dangerous where there was no soggy uncertainty, no shapeless evasion to encounter.
The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning.
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
Wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..
Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character - that
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.
The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.
The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.