If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's said that the worst thing one can do to a man is to kill his self-respect. But that's not true. Self-respect… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a… — 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
