Author

Ayn Rand

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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”— Ayn Rand
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“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.”— Ayn Rand
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“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
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”— Ayn Rand
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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”— Ayn Rand
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“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”— Ayn Rand
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“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”— Ayn Rand
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“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”— Ayn Rand
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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”— Ayn Rand
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“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”— Ayn Rand
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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”— Ayn Rand
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”— Ayn Rand
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“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”— Ayn Rand
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“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
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“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”— Ayn Rand
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”— Ayn Rand
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“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”— Ayn Rand
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“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”— Ayn Rand
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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”— Ayn Rand
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“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
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”— Ayn Rand
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“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”— Ayn Rand
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“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
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“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
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“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