More Quotes by Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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.
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
