Ayn Rand Famous Quotes
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
"If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
"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."
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand Quotations
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
I F Stone
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
Francis Bacon
"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Don Herold
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.
David Frost
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
French Proverb
"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."
Dave Barry