Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work…

— Ayn Rand

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

“Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .”

— Ayn Rand

“Do not say that you're afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding…

— Ayn Rand

“Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She went to the…

— Ayn Rand

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions…

— Ayn Rand

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into…

— Ayn Rand

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that…

— Ayn Rand

“He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little…

— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged

“To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged”

— Ayn Rand

“The evaluation of an action as ‘practical,’ depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.”

— Ayn Rand

“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is…

— Ayn Rand

“Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.” --Atlast Shrugged”

— Ayn Rand

“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.”

— Ayn Rand

“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can…

— Ayn Rand