There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason. Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand wisdomtruthinspirational Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours. Ayn Rand motivationalinspirationallife The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery. Ayn Rand championslaverymajority The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. Ayn Rand libertarian-partylibertymen When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are. Ayn Rand evilmenmean Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. Ayn Rand userightsmen Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others. Ayn Rand respectmistakemen Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. Ayn Rand menphilosophypeace Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Ayn Rand majoritylibertyrights Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others. Ayn Rand economicslibertydecision Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of. Ayn Rand heightgreedcitizens An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it. Ayn Rand forgivingresponsibilitypeople There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Ayn Rand two-sidescourageinspirational There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States. Ayn Rand governmentprinciplesrights Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members. Ayn Rand independentrightsmen People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism. Ayn Rand economicsacceptedpeople A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement. Ayn Rand self-esteemgivingmen The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand changemotivationalinspirational If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations. Ayn Rand menwarlong Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. Ayn Rand russiacountryamerica
