Ayn Rand Quotes About Literature

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Government, Historical

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.320, Penguin

• Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

  Ayn Rand

  Motherhood, Gun, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Character

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

• The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

  Ayn Rand

  Leadership, Men, Atlas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Class

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Atlas, Literature

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.152, Hamilton Books

• Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Historical, Literature

• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Men, Animal

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

  Ayn Rand

  Faith, Witty, Religious

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.335, Penguin

• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doe, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

• The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

• A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.179, Penguin

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