| 48 Famous Quotes by Ayn Rand
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“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes”
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“Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts”
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“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.”
Conviction Quotes |
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“A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.”
Culture Quotes |
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“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Earth Quotes |
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“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Fashion Quotes |
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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.”
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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.”
Government Quotes |
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“There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.”
Heaven Quotes |
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“When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice”
Judgement Quotes |
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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.”
Law and lawyers Quotes |
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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Mankind Quotes |
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“"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters”
Mediocrity Quotes |
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“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money Quotes |
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“Get the hell out of my way!”
Philosophy Quotes |
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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.”
Power Quotes |
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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.”
Prosperity Quotes |
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“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
Realism Quotes |
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“Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice”
Reality Quotes |
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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.”
Reason Quotes |
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“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
Reward Quotes |
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“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Self-knowledge Quotes |
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Truth Quotes |
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“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
Value Quotes |
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“A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.”
Vision Quotes |
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Ayn Rand Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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