A creative man is motivated by
the desire to achieve, not by the
desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Happiness , Life, Pain
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
Away , Political , Public
Individual rights are not subject
to a public vote; a majority has
no right to vote away the rights
of a minority; the political
function of rights is precisely to
protect minorities from
oppression by majorities (and
the smallest minority on earth is
the individual).
Ayn Rand
Money, Wish , Wherever
Money is only a tool. It will take
you wherever you wish, but it
will not replace you as the
driver.
Ayn Rand
Cannot , Earth , Individual
The smallest minority on earth is
the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to
be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Stop, Question
The question isn’t who is going
to let me; it’s who is going to
stop me.
Ayn Rand
Government , History, While
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
Men, Power , Government
The only power any government
has is the power to crack down
on criminals. Well, when there
aren’t enough criminals, one
makes them. One declares so
many things to be a crime that it
becomes impossible for men to
live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
Love , Able
To say ‘I love you’ one must first
be able to say the ‘I.’
Ayn Rand
Wisdom , Men, Truth
The truth is not for all men, but
only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Money, Evil , Asked
So you think that money is the
root of all evil. Have you ever
asked what is the root of all
money?
Ayn Rand
Success , Best, Ladder
The ladder of success is best
climbed by stepping on the
rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
Men, Morality , Survive
If any civilization is to survive, it
is the morality of altruism that
men have to reject.
Ayn Rand
Wrong, Evil , Side
There are two sides to every
issue: one side is right and the
other is wrong, but the middle is
always evil.
Ayn Rand
Yourself , Waiting, Here
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
Love , Character , Another
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
Mind , Gun, Force
Force and mind are opposites;
morality ends where a gun
begins.
Ayn Rand
Freedom , Men, Society
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.
Ayn Rand
Architecture, Order, Build
I don’t build in order to have
clients. I have clients in order to
build.
Ayn Rand
Happiness , State , Values
Happiness is that state of
consciousness which proceeds
from the achievement of one’s
values.
Ayn Rand
Yourself , Die , Enjoy
The purpose of morality is to
teach you, not to suffer and die,
but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
Men, Vision, Took
Throughout the centuries there
were men who took first steps,
down new roads, armed with
nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
Life , Love , Another
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
Accept , Worst, Guilt
The worst guilt is to accept an
unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
Government , Business , Help
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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