If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. — 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
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving,… — 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
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
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