Самые содержательные цитаты Айн Рэнд о правах, индивидуализме и правительстве

We can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

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

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

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.