Quotes
Quotes - Rand
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.
Thinking men cannot be ruled.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
