black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

Ayn Rand

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
AYN RAND

Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RAND

Philosophy Sacrifice
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
AYN RAND

Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RAND

Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RAND

Character Consume Honesty Man Produce
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RAND

Achievement Existence Goals Joy Moments Stumble Torture Vision
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
AYN RAND

Action Cause Citizen Government Private
What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RAND

Chemical Collection Delusion Man
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
AYN RAND

Absolute Give Up Hard Life Shape Standard Start Struggle Value World
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RAND

Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RAND

Consequences Deep Ignorance Reality
Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
AYN RAND

Give Up Life Motivational Struggle Want Worth
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
AYN RAND

Act Expand Inspirational Knowledge Life Limitation Live
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RAND

Beginning Ending Force Gun Mind Moral Opposite
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RAND

Constitution Crime Man Protection
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
AYN RAND

Capital Creation Earth High Live Standard
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND

Men Seek Truth
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
AYN RAND

Approach Evil Life Man Money Run Sentence
Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
AYN RAND

Absolute Dust Existence Human Life Reality
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
AYN RAND

Driver Money replace Tool
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RAND

Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
AYN RAND

Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
AYN RAND

Action Confidence Declutter Honesty Inspirational
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RAND

Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
AYN RAND

Believe Ending Goals Happiness Positive Purpose
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RAND

Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RAND

Danger Enemy Fight Moments Necessary Pain Thinking

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ayn Rand Quotes