Quotes by Rand, Ayn




Novelist and philosopher, best known for her philosophy of Objectivism.

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth."

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"Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future."

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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

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"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love."

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"What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness."

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"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

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"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

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"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

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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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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

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"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

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"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

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"There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit Ð and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it." "Atlas Shrugged."

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"Get the hell out of my way!"

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