A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. Ayn Rand Read Quote
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth. Ayn Rand Read Quote
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. Ayn Rand Read Quote
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. Ayn Rand Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand Read Quote
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power. Ayn Rand Read Quote
Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand Read Quote