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Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand quotes

Russian Writer February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982

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Ayn Rand quote: "Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power..."
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand
When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle, but if it's to get stinking drunk and forget you do. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to..."
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a..."
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind Ayn Rand
A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort. Ayn Rand
So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today."
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. Ayn Rand
Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of unfocussing his mind, the suspension of his conciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that is anti-mind, anti-life. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about..."
It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it. Ayn Rand
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose. Ayn Rand
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. Ayn Rand
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Never ask people about your work."
Never ask people about your work. Ayn Rand
Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line. Ayn Rand
But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did. Ayn Rand

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