“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She tried to demonstrate her power over him. She stayed away from his house; she waited for him to come to her.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She came back many days later. She saw him, unexpectedly, on a flat stretch of stone before her, by the side of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's not only that, Alvah. It's not you alone. If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The young photographer glanced at Roark's face--and thought of something that had puzzled him for a long time: he had always wondered… — 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
