Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — 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
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is… — 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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