Ayn Rand

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

— Ayn Rand

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

— Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality;but u cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality

— Ayn Rand

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

— Ayn Rand

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...

— Ayn Rand

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

— Ayn Rand

“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't…

— Ayn Rand

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

— Ayn Rand

“Every achievement of man is a value in itself, but it is also a stepping-stone to greater achievements and values. Life is…

— Ayn Rand

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that…

— Ayn Rand

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand…

— Ayn Rand

“Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that ‘the good’ was…

— Ayn Rand

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…

— Ayn Rand

“sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer,…

— Ayn Rand

“And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world…

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“He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.”

— Ayn Rand

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

— Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has…

— Ayn Rand

I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another…

— Ayn Rand

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

— Ayn Rand

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

— Ayn Rand

“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”

— Ayn Rand

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

— Ayn Rand

“Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

— Ayn Rand

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

— Ayn Rand

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

— 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…

— Ayn Rand

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

— Ayn Rand

“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices”

— Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

— Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

— Ayn Rand

“They’ve done their best to make it harder for you, haven’t they?” he said.”

— Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

— Ayn Rand

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

— Ayn Rand

“It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.”

— Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

— Ayn Rand

“No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.”

— Ayn Rand

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

— Ayn Rand

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.”

— Ayn Rand