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Ayn Rand Quotes

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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 Quotes) To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power  (Ayn Rand Quotes) A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving  (Ayn Rand Quotes) 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 Quotes) Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth  (Ayn Rand Quotes) From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind  (Ayn Rand Quotes) 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 Quotes) Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on Earth is the individual)  (Ayn Rand Quotes) It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started  (Ayn Rand Quotes) People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The smallest minority on Earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities  (Ayn Rand Quotes) There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil  (Ayn Rand Quotes) There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob  (Ayn Rand Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production  (Ayn Rand Quotes) I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it  (Ayn Rand Quotes) That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns - or dollars. Take your choice - there is no other  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?  (Ayn Rand Quotes)
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