Ayn Rand Quotes and Sayings

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.

― Ayn Rand

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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

― Ayn Rand

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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.

― Ayn Rand

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“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
― Ayn Rand

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~Ayn Rand
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
~Ayn Rand

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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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"Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality." (The Objectivist Feb 1966)  {WMail Issue #5}
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"Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today."
('Romantic Manifesto')  {WMail Issue #9}

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Guilt is a rope that wears thin.  

~Ayn Rand 

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
~Ayn Rand
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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.
~Ayn Rand

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Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

~Ayn Rand

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.

~Ayn Rand

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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
~Ayn Rand
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~Ayn Rand

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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.

~Ayn Rand

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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.

~Ayn Rand

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“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

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“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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