Quotes

“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

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.” Ayn Rand

“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

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” Ayn Rand

“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

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.” Ayn Rand

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.” Ayn Rand

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” Ayn Rand

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” Ayn Rand

“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

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.” Ayn Rand

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.” Ayn Rand

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” Ayn Rand

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.” Ayn Rand

“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.” Ayn Rand

“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

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” Ayn Rand

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.” Ayn Rand

“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” Ayn Rand

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.” Ayn Rand

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.” Ayn Rand

“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.” Ayn Rand

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” Ayn Rand

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” Ayn Rand

“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.” Ayn Rand

“Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.” Ayn Rand

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.” Ayn Rand

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” Ayn Rand

“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.” Ayn Rand