Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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.
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.
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Love is the expression of one's 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.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Ayn Rand
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
Ayn Rand
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's 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
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.
Ayn Rand
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Ayn Rand
