Ayn Rand
Quotations
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“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.” -Ayn Rand
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” -Ayn Rand
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” -Ayn Rand
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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” -Ayn Rand
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“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” -Ayn Rand
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.” -Ayn Rand
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” -Ayn Rand
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” -Ayn Rand
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” -Ayn Rand
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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.” -Ayn Rand
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“To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” -Ayn Rand
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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.” -Ayn Rand
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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.” -Ayn Rand
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“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.” -Ayn Rand
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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.” -Ayn Rand
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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.” -Ayn Rand
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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” -Ayn Rand
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“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
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“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
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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.” -Ayn Rand
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“Upper classes are a nation’s past the middle class is its future.” -Ayn Rand
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” -Ayn Rand
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“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
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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” -Ayn Rand
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.” -Ayn Rand
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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. – Ayn Rand
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