Famous Quotes by Ayn Rand

Below are famous quotes by Ayn Rand - US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982).

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

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

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

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