There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions… He will always be attracted to the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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