black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Ayn Rand

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
AYN RAND

Conviction Fundamental Man Result Sex
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RAND

Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate
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.
AYN RAND

Afraid Creation Human Nature Look People Straight Trouble Walk
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
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.
AYN RAND

Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RAND

Avoid Death Life Live Positive
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
AYN RAND

Kill Man Pretense Self Respect Worst
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
AYN RAND

Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RAND

Loneliness Nature Sad She Women
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
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
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
AYN RAND

Freedom Impossible Liberty Market Monopoly
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RAND

Consequences Evade Reality
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
AYN RAND

Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
AYN RAND

Capital Greedy One Liner System
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RAND

Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ayn Rand Quotes