Ayn Rand Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”

“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.”

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”

“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”

“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”