There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you." "Me what?" "Just you here. Or you in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“International 4-8818 and we are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us? We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man’s… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt a potential love for someone? Like, you don't actually love them and you know you don't, but you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...… — 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
