Quotes by Ayn Rand

About Ayn Rand:

Ayn Rand is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Ayn Rand

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

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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.

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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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.

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To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

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Motivational quotes by Ayn Rand, UberQuotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth i...

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends t...

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Author Bio

  • NameAyn Rand
  • DescriptionRussian-American novelist and philosopher
  • BornFebruary 2, 1905
  • DiedMarch 6, 1982
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Russian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher; Novelist; Economist
  • WorksAtlas Shrugged; The Fountainhead
  • AwardsPrometheus Award; Prometheus Award - Hall Of Fame