To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
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Ayn Rand
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About Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ayn RandRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
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.
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 res…
Potentially, 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.
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 …
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
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 …
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
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 res…
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 impossib…
Potentially, 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.
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 …
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.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.