Quote

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness the liberals, his body.

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
Conservatives
Liberals
Rule
Consciousness
Body
Men

More quotes by Ayn Rand

Image
Love is our response to our highest values.
Ayn Rand
Image
Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.
Ayn Rand
Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
Ayn Rand
Image
I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.
Ayn Rand
Image
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand
Image
There are no evil thoughts except one the refusal to think.
Ayn Rand
Image
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.
Ayn Rand
Image
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world
Ayn Rand
Image
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
Ayn Rand
Image
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
Ayn Rand
Image
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
Ayn Rand
Image
She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
Ayn Rand
Image
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.
Ayn Rand
Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
Ayn Rand
Image
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
Image
The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Ayn Rand
Image
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
Ayn Rand
Image
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
Ayn Rand
Image
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
Ayn Rand