More Quotes by Ayn Rand
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
