Ayn Rand Quotes

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

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

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

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.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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.

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

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.