Ayn Rand, her original name Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum was born on February 2, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia, and died on March 6, 1982, in New York, New York, U.S. As an American novelist born in the Russian-speaking region, she wrote commercially successful novels that promoted individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, which were popular among conservatives and libertarians as well as young people since the mid-20th century.
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Ayn Rand Quotes:
- 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.
- 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.
- People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
- To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
- Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
- The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- 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.
- There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
- Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
- The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
- Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
