Best Ayn Rand Quotes and Quotations

Best Ayn Rand Quotes and Quotations

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
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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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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
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
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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
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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
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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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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
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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
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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
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He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
Ayn Rand
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He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
Ayn Rand
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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
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