Quotes from Ayn Rand
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
- Ayn Rand
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
- Ayn Rand
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
- Ayn Rand
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
- Ayn Rand
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
- Ayn Rand
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
- Ayn Rand
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
- Ayn Rand
Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
- Ayn Rand
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
- Ayn Rand
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
- Ayn Rand