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Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
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St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
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
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
Ayn Rand
Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
Ayn Rand
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Ayn Rand
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.
Ayn Rand
There are no evil thoughts except one the refusal to think.
Ayn Rand
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
Ayn Rand
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
Ayn Rand
Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Ayn Rand
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.
Ayn Rand
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
Ayn Rand
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
Ayn Rand
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Ayn Rand
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
Ayn Rand
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
Ayn Rand