“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.”
Business
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
HappinessAll Quotes by 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.”
Government“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
Architecture“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.”
Learning“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Men“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Life“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Money“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
Future“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men“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.”
Government“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
Faith“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
Power“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Alone“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
Government“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power