Quotes by Ayn Rand

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

I need no warrant for being and no sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

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

"The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four."

Any alleged “right” of one man which necessitates the violation of the right of another, is not, and cannot be a right.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

"Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future."

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

“Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.”

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.