“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
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
MenAll 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“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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Men“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Happiness“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“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“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“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“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture“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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Death“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money“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.”
Good“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Hope