Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand — Russian Writer born on February 02, 1905, died on March 06, 1982

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ayn Rand Quotes

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