The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. — 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
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not… — 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
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — 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
“Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — 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
“This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of… — 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
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to… — 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
