Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
Ayn Rand
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Less
Founding
Individual
Novelists
Political
Ideal
America
Philosopher
States
Principle
Nothing
Ideals
Principles
Playwright
Rights
Usa
More quotes by Ayn Rand
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO
Ayn Rand
It's not about who's going to let me it's about who's going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.
Ayn Rand
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.
Ayn Rand
Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I
Ayn Rand
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Ayn Rand
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
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
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
Ayn Rand
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
Ayn Rand
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
Ayn Rand
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
Ayn Rand
Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.
Ayn Rand
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values their virtues.
Ayn Rand
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
Ayn Rand
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
Ayn Rand
There are no evil thoughts except one the refusal to think.
Ayn Rand
An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Ayn Rand
