People Quotes by Ayn Rand

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted

— Ayn Rand

Never ask people about your work.

— Ayn Rand

That time and those people are upon you!

— Ayn Rand

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

— Ayn Rand

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

— Ayn Rand

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;…

— Ayn Rand

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

— Ayn Rand

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

— Ayn Rand

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to…

— Ayn Rand

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

— Ayn Rand

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

— Ayn Rand

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

— Ayn Rand

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're…

— Ayn Rand

“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light…

— Ayn Rand

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether…

— Ayn Rand

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.…

— Ayn Rand

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people…

— Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to…

— Ayn Rand

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to…

— Ayn Rand

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the…

— Ayn Rand

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort…

— Ayn Rand

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was…

— Ayn Rand

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those…

— Ayn Rand

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with…

— Ayn Rand

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,…

— Ayn Rand

There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,…

— Ayn Rand

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in…

— Ayn Rand

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

— Ayn Rand

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know…

— Ayn Rand

But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it…

— Ayn Rand

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did…

— Ayn Rand

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

— Ayn Rand

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,…

— Ayn Rand

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do…

— Ayn Rand

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through…

— Ayn Rand

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try…

— Ayn Rand

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray…

— Ayn Rand

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes…

— Ayn Rand

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they…

— Ayn Rand

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces,…

— Ayn Rand