Ayn Rand

don't know scared learn

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

value yourself fight happiness

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

freedom ask nothing expect depend

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

creative motivate achieve beat others

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

smallest minority individual

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

contradiction premises

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

truth all seek

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

worth doing overdoing

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

government dangerous threat man right monopoly force

“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 (1905-1982)

wealth life grow perish

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

integrity ability stand idea

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

lousy job men care

“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

businessman mistake product bureaucrat suffer loss

"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

evade reality consequences

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

question let stop

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

ultimate inversion state permission brutal force

"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."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

corruption reward honesty self-sacrifice society doomed

"When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed"

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

honest man consume produce

"An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

genius moron race origin

"A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

individual right public vote majority minority

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority."

― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)