Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. |
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. |
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. |
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. |
Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice |
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. |
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. |
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? |
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? |
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. |
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else. |
That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve |
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort |
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged |
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. |