Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. – Ayn Rand
Just as man cant exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ones rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. – Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. – Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a societys virtue. – Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to mens stupidity, but your talent to their reason. – Ayn Rand
To say I love you one must first be able to say the I. – Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of ones 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
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the lepers bell of an approaching looter. – Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ones values. – Ayn Rand
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. – Ayn Rand
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent 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
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
Upper classes are a nations past the middle class is its future. – Ayn Rand
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond mans power to conceive. – Ayn Rand
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
I dont build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. – Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. – Ayn Rand
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
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand
