Quotes Ayn Rand

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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: i...

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of y...

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

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness shoul...

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. Th...

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are faci...

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a g...

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -...

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the powe...

Evil requires the sanction of the victim....

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begi...

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstrac...

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond ma...

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as gover...

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from...

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

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never liv...

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of alt...

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majori...

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

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there...

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can e...