Ayn Rand Quotes

I am a man who does not exist for others. — 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

An inventor is a man who asks ‘Why?’ of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

— Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.— Ayn Rand

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

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot — Ayn Rand

No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.— Ayn Rand

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

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.— Ayn Rand

I feel that this country is being destroyed by its philosophy, specifically by its universities. The most dangerous things in this country today are the universities because they are teaching the kinds of ideas that would necessarily have to lead to the destruction of this country.— Ayn Rand

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

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.— Ayn Rand

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.— Ayn Rand

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? — Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.— Ayn Rand

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