“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.”
Quote by Ayn Rand
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“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”