Quotes from Ayn Rand

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

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