Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

Every major horror of history was
committed in the name of an
altruistic motive. Has any act of
selfishness ever equaled the
carnage perpetrated by disciples of
altruism?

Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his
body, so no rights can exist
without the right to translate
one's rights into reality, to
think, to work and keep the
results, which means: the right of
property.

Ayn Rand

The good, say the mystics of
spirit, is God, a being whose only
definition is that he is beyond
man's power to conceive - a
definition that invalidates man's
consciousness and nullifies his
concepts of existence. The good,
say the mystics of muscle, is
Society - a thing which they define
as an organism that possesses no
physical form, a super-being
embodied in no one in particular
and everyone in general except
yourself.... The purpose of man's
life, say both, is to become an
abject zombie who serves a purpose
he does not know, for reasons he is
not to question.

Ayn Rand

So you think that money is the root
of all evil. Have you ever asked
what is the root of all money?

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

To say I love you one must first
be able to say the I.

Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his
own image. He has the power to
choose, but no power to escape the
necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

The truth is not for all men, but
only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward
a society of privacy. The savage's
whole existence is public, ruled by
the laws of his tribe. Civilization
is the process of setting man free
from men.

Ayn Rand