Ayn Rand Quotes
Ayn Rand ( February 2 January 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
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 darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
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 darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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