Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.” — 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
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — 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
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the… — 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
“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
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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