Quotes from Ayn Rand
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
- Ayn Rand
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
- Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- Ayn Rand
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
- Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
- Ayn Rand
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
- Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
- Ayn Rand
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
- Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
- Ayn Rand
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
- Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
- Ayn Rand
I think. I am. I will.
- Ayn Rand