Quotes from Ayn Rand

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Most American men are repressors.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.