Ayn Rand Quotes and Sayings (4)

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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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

~Ayn Rand

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

~Ayn Rand

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

~Ayn Rand

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When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

~Ayn Rand

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

~Ayn Rand

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

~Ayn Rand

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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

~Ayn Rand

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The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.

~Ayn Rand

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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
~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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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
~Ayn Rand
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
~Ayn Rand

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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~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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“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

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“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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