1,908 Quotes by Ayn Rand

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.