Quotes from Ayn Rand
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
- Ayn Rand
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
- Ayn Rand
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
- Ayn Rand
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
- Ayn Rand
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.
- Ayn Rand
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
- Ayn Rand
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
- Ayn Rand
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
- Ayn Rand
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
- Ayn Rand
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.
- Ayn Rand