Ayn Rand

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#good #philosophy #death

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#inspirational

You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#humor

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#housing-projects #human-regression #objectivism #society #age

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. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#survive #life

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#justice #kindness #faith

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dedication #dreams #question #rand #stop

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon— ↗

— Ayn Rand

#idea #love #memory #unattainable #love

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#pride #beauty

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#racism #reason #life