It is a sin to write this. Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes. Ayn Rand thugcharactermen Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms. Ayn Rand expressionrightsmen Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. Ayn Rand futurefightingphilosophy You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Ayn Rand eyeknowingprayer Words are a lens to focus one's mind. Ayn Rand focusmindwriting Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Ayn Rand expandingthrivelimits Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth. Ayn Rand honestyangertruth All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy. Ayn Rand libertygovernmentpoison The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral. Ayn Rand moralitysacrificecreeds The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin. Ayn Rand coffinsnailseconomics The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand live-lifeteachinginspirational Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. Ayn Rand recognitionphilosophyfacts 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 goalhappinessmean Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. Ayn Rand fountainheadintegrityideas When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand crazyinspirationhope It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls. Ayn Rand betrayalcouragelife There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . . Ayn Rand meanpeopleideas Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand lovecharacterlife And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. Ayn Rand pridejoymen Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. Ayn Rand admirationselflove
