rand Quotes

“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.”

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

“Design is everything. Everything!”

“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.”

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

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”

“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”

“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.”