Ayn Rand

Writer

88 Quotes

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Belajarlah untuk menghargai diri Anda sendiri, yang berarti berjuang untuk kebahagiaan Anda.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Katakan padaku apa yang menurut pria menarik secara seksual dan aku akan memberitahumu seluruh filosofi hidupnya.

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.

Pertanyaannya bukan siapa yang mengizinkan saya, tapi siapa yang akan menghentikan saya.

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

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

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

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.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

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.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Jadi Anda berpikir bahwa uang adalah akar dari semua kejahatan? [...] Pernahkah Anda bertanya apa akar dari uang?

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

Setiap campur tangan pemerintah dalam perekonomian terdiri dari memberikan manfaat yang tidak diterima, diperas dengan paksa, untuk beberapa orang dengan mengorbankan orang lain.

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