Ayn Rand Quotes.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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 he has become civilized.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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.
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
