Ayn Rand Quotes Page 2
Best 46 Quotes by Ayn Rand – Page 2 of 2
“The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on.”
“The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him: The reasoning mind.”
“The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”
“There are two sides to every issue: One side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist:
The fashionable non-conformist.”
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.”
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can’t stand still. It must grow or perish.”
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.”
“You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes.”
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“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent.”
