Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

33 quotes

Ayn Rand is a Russian -American writer and philosopher whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Their reputation for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Our collection holds 49 quotes from Ayn Rand, each offering a different angle on Men, Money, Power, Government, and Society. Readers often gravitate to this one: "When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

— Ayn Rand

Love

All Quotes by Ayn Rand

“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”

— Ayn Rand

Architecture

“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.”

— Ayn Rand

Life

“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”

— Ayn Rand

Architecture

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

— Ayn Rand

Alone

“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.”

— Ayn Rand

Men

“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”

— Ayn Rand

Future

“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

Learning

“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”

— Ayn Rand

Men

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

— Ayn Rand

Money

“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”

— Ayn Rand

Love

“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”

— Ayn Rand

Good

“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

Government

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

— Ayn Rand

Happiness

“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”

— Ayn Rand

Men

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

— Ayn Rand

Love

“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

Happiness

“Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.”

— Ayn Rand

Work

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

— Ayn Rand

Money

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

— Ayn Rand

Motivational

“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”

— Ayn Rand

Faith