Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — 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 right derived from his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a… — 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
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
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions… He will always be attracted to the woman… — 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
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. — 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
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the… — 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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