More Quotes by Ayn Rand
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
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.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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.
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.
