Ayn Rand
Russian Writer, Philosopher
Lived from: 1905 - 1982
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Russia
Born: 2 february 1905 Died: 6 march 1982
Quotes 21 till 40 of 59.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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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.
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
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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.
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
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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.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)― Ayn Rand -
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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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.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
The Romantic Manifesto (1969)― Ayn Rand -
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)― Ayn Rand
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