Ayn Rand Quotes

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

Money is the root of all good.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

To achieve, you need thought

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.