“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Love
“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Money“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Hope“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Happiness“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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”
Life“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men“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“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Money“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
Faith“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
Architecture“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“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men“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“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”
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