A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — 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
If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor… — 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
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Men who have found tbe right way of life do not seek to escape from awareness, to obliterate their consciousness, and to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — 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
“Every achievement of man is a value in itself, but it is also a stepping-stone to greater achievements and values. Life is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It… — 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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