“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men
“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“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“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
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.”
Learning“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“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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”
Good“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.”
Love“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Men“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Death“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“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.”
Work“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“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Money“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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Hope“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