The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — 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
