"Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular s...
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~ Ayn Rand ~
More Ayn Rand quotes
"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
"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 m...
"While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistak...
"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 disarme...
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
"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 ...
"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 domesti...
"Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake ...
"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.
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
"To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
"To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact tha...
"Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—n...