Society Quotes by Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

— Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

— Ayn Rand

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

— Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own…

— Ayn Rand

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers,…

— Ayn Rand

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a…

— Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act…

— Ayn Rand

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,…

— Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men…

— Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.…

— Ayn Rand

“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform…

— Ayn Rand

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a…

— Ayn Rand

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of…

— Ayn Rand

“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification…

— Ayn Rand

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,…

— Ayn Rand

“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that…

— Ayn Rand

“Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that…

— Ayn Rand