Ayn Rand

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

Ayn Rand

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Ayn Rand

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn’t hold a stillborn aspiration. I’d want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Ayn Rand

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Ayn Rand

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.

Ayn Rand

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Ayn Rand

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Ayn Rand

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Ayn Rand