Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Quote by Ayn Rand
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
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Ayn Rand Quotes
- Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
- Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
- God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
- The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
- Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Best Quotes
- Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.