Ayn Rand Quotes

The basic need of the creator is independence.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed.

The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

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

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.