Quote

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Ayn Rand

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Literature
Civilized
Understand
Believing
Become
Plant
Crop
May
Animals
Crops
Wells
Behavior
Learns
Well
Learning
Domestic
Believe
Control
Justified
Men
Animal
Plants

More quotes by Ayn Rand

Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.
Ayn Rand
Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice
Ayn Rand
Image
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand
Image
Any group or collective, large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
Ayn Rand
Image
Most American men are repressors.
Ayn Rand
Image
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
Ayn Rand
Image
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality
Ayn Rand
Image
What do I think of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.
Ayn Rand
Image
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
Ayn Rand
Image
Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.
Ayn Rand
Image
I will not die, it's the world that will end. paraphrase of unknown philosopher
Ayn Rand
Image
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.
Ayn Rand
Image
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.
Ayn Rand
Image
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
Ayn Rand
Image
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
Ayn Rand
Image
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Ayn Rand
Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
Ayn Rand
Image
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.
Ayn Rand
Image
There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.
Ayn Rand
Image
Great men can't be ruled.
Ayn Rand