Ayn Rand

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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Potentially, 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.

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

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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

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

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

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.

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

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.;Alfred Lord Tennyson;love 42927;Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.;Pierre Teilhard de Chardin;love 42928;Everything is clearer when you're in love.;John Lennon;love 42929;The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.;Gilbert K. Chesterton;love 42930;We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.;Tom Robbins;love 42931;I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.;J. D. Salinger;love 42932;Who, being loved, is poor?;Oscar Wilde;love 42933;Love is a game that two can play and both win.;Eva Gabor;love 42934;For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.;Carl Sagan;love 42935;The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.;Henry Miller;love 42936;Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.;H. Jackson Brown, Jr.;love 42937;The giving of love is an education in itself.;Eleanor Roosevelt;love 42938;All mankind love a lover.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;love 42939;You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.;Henry Drummond;love 42940;If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.;Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton;love 42941;Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.;Leo Buscaglia;love 42942;The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.;Jiddu Krishnamurti;love 42943;It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.;Miguel de Unamuno;love 42944;Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.;Lao Tzu;love 42945;The art of love is largely the art of persistence.;Albert Ellis;love 42946;Love is a friendship set to music.;Joseph Campbell;love 42947;There is no remedy for love but to love more.;Henry David Thoreau;love 42948;If you want to be loved, be lovable.;Ovid;love 42949;Love is the beauty of the soul.;Saint Augustine;love 42950;Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.;Khalil Gibran;love 42951;Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.;H. L. Mencken;love 42952;To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.