"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

posted in work

Ayn Rand quote about work: "Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'..."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

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

-Ayn Rand

wisdomView Quote

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

-Ayn Rand

truthView Quote

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

-Ayn Rand

successView Quote

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

-Ayn Rand

societyView Quote

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."

-Ayn Rand

societyView Quote

"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."

-Ayn Rand

societyView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

-Tom Stoppard

"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

-Jeff Bridges

"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

-Tom Stoppard

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

-Novalis

"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

-Caspar David Friedrich

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

-Brian Eno