To achieve, you need thought. You have to know wha... -Ayn Rand

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

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Ayn Rand was a prominent writer and philosopher known for her influential works exploring individualism, objectivism, and rational self-interest. Her writings continue to provoke intellectual discussions and have left a lasting impact on philosophical and political discourse.

Ayn Rand Quotes to Explore

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others....
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision....
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject....
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 m...
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it....
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 ...
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is....
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 disarme...
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 ...
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom....

Power Quotes to Explore

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is ba...
Heart power is stronger than horsepower....
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a ...
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the li...
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fas...
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this beco...
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place....
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corpora...
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating....