Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 2

Russian - Writer February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' - Ayn Rand

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Love, I Love You, You, Say, First, Able

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 disarmed victims.

Man, Legal, Government, Dangerous, Force

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

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

Architecture, Build, Clients, Order

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.

Love, Man, Character, Love Is, You, Joy

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.

Freedom, Man, Men, Progress, Society

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

Than, Level, Cowardice, Fashionable

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.

Business, Service, Government, Hands

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

Man, Survive, Unique, Reward, Animals

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.

Work, Man, Think, Body, Reality, Results

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Law, Morality, Numbers, Matter, Rights

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Money, Society, Virtue, Barometer

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

Action, Worth, Achieve, Desire, Goal

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

Culture, Ethics, New, Rational, Code

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

Society, Law, Moral, Rights, Individual

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

See, Hardest, Explain, Everybody, Thing

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

Man, Integrity, Architecture, Building

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

Evil, Always, Wrong, Side, Right, Sides

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

Yourself, Live, You, Enjoy, Die, Purpose

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Think, You, Wrong, Find, Will, Your

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.

Life, Man, Money, Evil, You, Run

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

Man, Leader, Who, Being, Course, His

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Evil, Victim, Sanction, Requires

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

Money, Men, Talent, You, Stupidity, Your

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Man, Service, You, Sacrifice, Someone

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Man, Mind, Everything, Wheel, Function

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Good, Stupidity, Desire, Say, Force, Nor

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