Ayn Rand Quotes

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.

• principle
• evil

The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

• argument
• violence

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

• happiness
• power

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

• cause and effect
• perception

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.

• government
• capitalism
• economics