As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — 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
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — 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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