“To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.” --Atlast… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The evaluation of an action as ‘practical,’ depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an… — Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged Copy Share Image
“Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She went… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do not say that you're afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The error is this: it is proper for a creator to be optimistic, in the deepest, most basic sense, since the creator… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
