Best Ayn Rand Words
- Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Achievement
- To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. Creative
- By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. Any
- If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a… Book
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and… Accuses
- To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to… Act
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into… Attempt
- They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his… Birthright
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most… Absolute
- Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the… All
- Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundant
- That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. Art
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If… Ability
- Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. Creation
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness… Acceptance
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… Address
- The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated… Any
- Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. America
- But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. Declaration
- The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United… America
- A free mind and a free market are corollaries. Corollaries
- Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only… Acquired
- It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. Anonymous
- It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and… Basic
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. All
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