But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — 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
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. — 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
