Ayn Rand Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.