1,908 Quotes by Ayn Rand

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.

The question isn't who is going to let me it's who is going to stop me.

Whether you know the shape of the pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

If life could have a theme song—and I believe every worthwhile one has—mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania, or all of these expressed in one word—individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless, and tragically needed.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, the attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

It ballet is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.