“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — 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
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by… — 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
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — 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
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — 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
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
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — 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
