A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does… — 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 Image
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 Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
