Ayn Rand Quotes

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

Money, Evil, Asked

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

Good, Stupidity, Desire

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

Happiness, State, Values

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

Wealth, Capacity, Product

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

Power, Real, Thought

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

Mind, Gun, Morality

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

Architecture, Order, Build

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

Future, Past, Nation

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

Everybody, Decided, Explain

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand

Evil, Victim, Requires

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

Accept, Worst, Guilt

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

Leader, Lets, Wreck

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

Yourself, Live, Enjoy

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

Men, Nothing, Down

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

Architecture, Integrity, Building

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

Culture, Ethics, Needs

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

Hope, Die, Hell

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

Life, Death, Achieving

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand

Faith, God, Power

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand

Goal, Worth, Desire

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

Afraid, Looking, Road

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

Money, Men, Stupidity

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand

Money, Society, Virtue

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

Work, Reality, Keep

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

Society, Law, Moral

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: February 2, 1905

Died: March 6, 1982

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