106 Quotations by Ayn Rand
- 1. A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cau ...
- 2. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
- 3. A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, ...
- 4. A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is wor ...
- 5. A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron i ...
- 6. A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve ...
- 7. A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of p ...
- 8. All work is an act of philosophy
- 9. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - ...
- 10. America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g ...
- 11. An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.
- 12. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought si ...
- 13. Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ...
- 14. Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea.
- 15. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
- 16. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ru ...
- 17. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. ...
- 18. Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of "equilibri ...
- 19. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidi ...
- 20. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate ...
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