Quotes about Ayn rand

"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word 'I' could give it up and not know what they had lost."

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

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

I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life....It had to be said. The world is perishishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

I am not looking for intelligent disagreement any longer.... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

"I think it solidified my capitalistic thinking( Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged"), in that I believe very strongly that people are generally selfish, but that selfishness can ultimately benefit many, many people."

"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." Ayn Rand