What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — 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
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not… — 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
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if… — 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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