Quote

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

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
Helping
Judgement
Facts
Recognition
Live
Escape
Nothing
Independence
Thinking
Responsibility
Hitter
Life
Politics
Pinch
Help
Substitute
Fact
Substitutes

More quotes by Ayn Rand

Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.
Ayn Rand
Image
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
Image
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
Ayn Rand
Image
Dominique as Gail looks at her ... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.
Ayn Rand
Image
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
Ayn Rand
Image
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
Ayn Rand
Image
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
Ayn Rand
Image
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
Ayn Rand
Image
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
Ayn Rand
Image
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.
Ayn Rand
Image
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality
Ayn Rand
Image
Statism needs war a free country does not. Statism survives by looting a free country survives by producing.
Ayn Rand
Image
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
Ayn Rand
Image
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.
Ayn Rand
Image
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
Ayn Rand
Image
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
Ayn Rand
Image
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras whenever it fell, so did mankind.
Ayn Rand
Image
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Ayn Rand
Image
An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Ayn Rand
Image
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
Ayn Rand