“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“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)
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“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)
“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 is the ability to stand by an idea.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"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)
"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"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)
"When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed"
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced."
― Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"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 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)