Ayn Rand

Writer

88 Quotes

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

Mencapai hidup tidak sama dengan menghindari kematian.

Dari kebutuhan terkecil hingga abstraksi religius tertinggi, dari roda hingga gedung pencakar langit, segala sesuatu yang kita miliki dan segala sesuatu yang kita miliki berasal dari satu atribut manusia - fungsi pikiran penalarannya.

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

Uang hanyalah alat. Ini akan membawa Anda kemanapun Anda inginkan, tetapi itu tidak akan menggantikan Anda sebagai pengemudi.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Integritas adalah kemampuan untuk berpijak karena sebuah gagasan.

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.

Kekuatan dan pikiran berlawanan; moralitas berakhir di mana senjata dimulai.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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

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.

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

Saya menganggap perzinahan tidak bermoral. Bukan karena seks itu jahat, tetapi karena seks terlalu bagus dan terlalu penting.

Tanyakan pada diri Anda apakah impian surga dan kebesaran harus menunggu kita dalam kubur atau apakah harus menjadi milik kita disini dan di bumi ini.

Kekayaan adalah hasil dari kemampuan berpikir manusia.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

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.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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