Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — 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
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
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — 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
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
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,… — 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
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — 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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