Quotes by Ayn Rand

Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

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

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

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.

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

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.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.