Ayn Rand quotes

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)
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
Ayn Rand
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
Ayn Rand
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. (Ayn Rand)
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem.
Ayn Rand
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand
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
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
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
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. (Ayn Rand)
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
Ayn Rand
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.
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand