Ayn rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

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

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

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his...

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.