Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
AYN RANDIf a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
AYN RANDAll life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDMoney is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RANDThe source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDI love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
AYN RANDA 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 RANDLearn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RAND