“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society
“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.”
LifeAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“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“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“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men“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 the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Money“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.”
Happiness“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“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“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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Money“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
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.”
Life“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Alone“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Love“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men