Ayn Rand Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

Motivational, Others, Creative

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.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Happiness, Life, Pain

Government '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.
Ayn Rand

Government, Business, Help

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Cannot, Earth, Rights

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

Someone, Sacrifice, Reason

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.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

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.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Love, Character, Emotional

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.
Ayn Rand

Life, Love, Live

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand

Find, Wrong, Exist

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.
Ayn Rand

Waiting, Yourself, Here

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Success, Best, Ladder

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand

Alone, Cannot, Reason

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.
Ayn Rand

Life, Money, Evil

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

Evil, Two, Wrong

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

Power, Choice, Choose

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.
Ayn Rand

Men, Society, Free

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand

Money, Wish, Wherever

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand

Level, Cowardice, Conformist

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

Wisdom, Men, Truth

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Men, Morality, Survive

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: February 2, 1905

Died: March 6, 1982

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