Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
Born: Feb 2, 1905
Died: Mar 6, 1982
Government Man Money Rights Think You
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand
Motivational Man Creative Achieve Others Beat Motivated Desire
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
Government History Approaching Darkest Free Stage Rule Pleases Citizens Only Inversion Brute Brute Force Periods Force Permission Ultimate May Human Where Anything Which While Human History Act Fast
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand
Vote Rights Oppression Political Minority Earth Minorities Individual Individual Rights Smallest Protect Majority Subject Precisely Public Function Away Right
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand
Happiness Life Loyalty Achievement Integrity Result Values Pain Mindless Moral Proof Only Purpose Since Your
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand
Rights Minority Earth Those Claim Minorities Individual Individual Rights Smallest Deny Cannot Who Defenders
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
Government Impossible Crime Men Power Down Live Enough Criminals Laws Only Well Without Makes Becomes Crack Any Breaking Them Many Things
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
Alone Those Count Leave Deny Automatic Cannot Them Reason Who Conquered
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' Ayn Rand
Love You First Say Must Able Love You
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. Ayn Rand
Government Man Rights Legal Dangerous Monopoly Threat Physical Physical Force Potentially Disarmed Most Force Legally Holds Victims Against Use
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
You Will Think Find Facing Wrong Check Exist Contradiction Contradictions Whenever Them Your Premises
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
Savage Freedom Privacy Man Progress Men Free Society Setting Ruled Tribe Laws Civilization Toward His Existence Process Public Whole
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand
Success Best Opportunity Ladder Stepping Climbed Success Is
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. Ayn Rand
Service You Man Sacrifice Master Collecting Someone Only Sacrificial Masters Being Where Speaking Speaks Reason Who Stands Served Slaves
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Ayn Rand
Evil Every Other Side Sides Wrong Always Issue Middle Right Two
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
Life Love Man Will My Life Live Mine Never Another Another Man Sake Nor Swear Ask
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand
Vision Men First Own Nothing Down Took Throughout Roads Steps New Armed Were Centuries Who
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Ayn Rand
You Money Evil Think Asked Root Ever
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. Ayn Rand
Service Government Business Prosperity National Way Only Disastrous Off Persecution Hands Just Help Keeping
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
You People Walk Looking Sit Own See Road Look Because Questions Afraid Straight Create
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand
Everybody Evident See Had The Hardest Thing Decided Which Explain Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
You Money Will Wish Tool Only Take Driver Replace Wherever
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. Ayn Rand
Guilt Worst Accept Unearned
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Ayn Rand
Men Morality Civilization Altruism Survive Any To Survive Reject
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
Life You Man Money Approaching Evil Run Tells Any Sentence Leper Your Who Bell
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. Ayn Rand
Man Mind Everything Religious Highest Smallest Abstraction Attribute His Wheel Reasoning Skyscraper Function Necessity
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 Say Neither Force Nor Motive Motives Ever Desire
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