Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
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"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
Ayn Rand
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
Ayn Rand
"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
Ayn Rand
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
Ayn Rand
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
Ayn Rand
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
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
"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
Ayn Rand
"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."
Ayn Rand
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
Ayn Rand
"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I."
Ayn Rand
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
Ayn Rand
"Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
Ayn Rand
"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."
Ayn Rand
"What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp."
Ayn Rand
"Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future."
Ayn Rand
"Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man."
Ayn Rand
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."
Ayn Rand
"Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise."
Ayn Rand
"God forgives those who invent what they need."
Ayn Rand
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