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Ayn Rand Quotes
![If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man’s life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/783/782959/782959.webp "If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man’s life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite Picture Quote #1")
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America’s founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less (Ayn Rand Quotes)
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose (Ayn Rand Quotes)
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose (Ayn Rand Quotes)
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man’s life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person (Ayn Rand Quotes)
We the Living is not a novel ‘about Soviet Russia.’ It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word ‘sanctity’ not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of ‘supreme value.’ (Ayn Rand Quotes)
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them (Ayn Rand Quotes)
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes (Ayn Rand Quotes)
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Ah, there’s nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel (Ayn Rand Quotes)
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts (Ayn Rand Quotes)
The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures ‘vehicles’ for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere (Ayn Rand Quotes)
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole (Ayn Rand Quotes)
The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the ‘luck’ has to be helped along and provided by someone (Ayn Rand Quotes)
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one’s permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them (Ayn Rand Quotes)
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man’s mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom (Ayn Rand Quotes)
There is no such dichotomy as ‘human rights’ versus ‘property rights.’ No human rights can exist without property rights (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I’m challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man’s moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice (Ayn Rand Quotes)
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action. (Ayn Rand Quotes)
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an ‘open mind,’ but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially. (Ayn Rand Quotes)
There’s only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive. (Ayn Rand Quotes)
The government’s only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly. (Ayn Rand Quotes)
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with (Ayn Rand Quotes)
I am not looking for intelligent disagreement any longer.... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement. (Ayn Rand Quotes)
Don’t bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes (Ayn Rand Quotes)