Ayn Rand Quotes on Life, Love and Capitalism

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

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

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

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

Freedom : To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.