Ayn Rand

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. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#because #create #look #looking #own

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#business #disastrous #hands #help #just

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

— Ayn Rand

#man #product #think #wealth

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#any #civilization #men #morality #reject

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

— Ayn Rand

#ever #force #good #motive #motives

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

— Ayn Rand

#cowardice #fashionable #level #lower #than

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

— Ayn Rand

#builds #choice #choose #escape #every

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

— Ayn Rand

#every #evil #issue #middle #other

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. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#approaching #bell #evil #leper #life

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. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven