Skip to content

Expenses Quote by Ayn Rand

“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think…” quote by Ayn Rand — Download Open image

“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Expenses Failure Identity Ignorant Individual Individual rights Men Mistake Please Rights Thinking

More by Ayn Rand

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Image

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

Image

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

Image

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…

Image

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

Image

“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

Image

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

Image

“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

Image

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

Image

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

Image

“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

Image

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

Image

Explore all 1,777 Ayn Rand quotes

More Expenses quotes

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

William Henry Pickering

Image

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

Image

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should…

Image

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged…

Henry David Thoreau

Image

According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they…

Image

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been…

Image

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Image

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify…

Image

I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work…

Image

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

William Gilmore Simms

Image

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Image

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Image

Browse all 952 Expenses quotes