It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Life is achievement…Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Wheeling his bicycle by his side, the boy took the narrow path down the slope of the hill to the valley and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the… — 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
