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Every loneliness is a pinnacle.
Ayn Rand
I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
Ayn Rand
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
Ayn Rand
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
Ayn Rand
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
Ayn Rand
She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.
Ayn Rand
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Ayn Rand
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
Ayn Rand
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
Ayn Rand
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Ayn Rand
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Any group or "collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
Ayn Rand
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
Ayn Rand
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
Ayn Rand
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.
Ayn Rand
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.
Ayn Rand
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.
Ayn Rand
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence-to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Ayn Rand
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand
Occupation:
American Writer
Born:
February 2, 1905
Died:
March 6, 1982
Quotes count:
467
Wikipedia:
Ayn Rand
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