Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.”

“Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.”

“Potentially, 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.”

“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”

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

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”

“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”