But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — 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
