Ayn Rand Quotes and Sayings (3)

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

~Ayn Rand

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

~Ayn Rand 

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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.

~Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
~Ayn Rand
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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
~Ayn Rand
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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
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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 

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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

~Ayn Rand 

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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.

~Ayn Rand 

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18. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

~Ayn Rand 

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"Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him."

~Ayn Rand
('For the New Intellectual' 1961)  {WMail Issue #17}
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"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. 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. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be
much easier to deal with."

~Ayn Rand ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)  {WMail Issue #23}
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"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction [that] you give it."

~Ayn Rand ('John Galt Speech' 1957)  {WMail Issue #26}
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"Great men can't be ruled."

~Ayn Rand {WMail Issue #26} 

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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
~Ayn Rand
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
~Ayn Rand
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
~Ayn Rand

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
~Ayn Rand 

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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

~Ayn Rand 

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

~Ayn Rand 

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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 

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