Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 10)

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is"

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future"

"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"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"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Evil requires the sanction of the victim"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others"

Ayn Rand, Writer

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

Ayn Rand, Writer

"To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.""

Ayn Rand, Writer

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started"

Ayn Rand, Writer

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

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"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"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)"

Ayn Rand, Writer

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