10 AMAZING Quotes by Ayn Rand!

Ayn Rand (January 20, 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with The Fountainhead (1943), and her best-known work – the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged – was published in 1957. [source: wikipedia]

10 AMAZING Quotes by Ayn Rand!

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
   
   
6. The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
   
   
7. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
9. The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
   
   
10. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
    
    

BONUS

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.

BONUS BONUS

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.