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
“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out;… — 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
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had… — 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
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — 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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