America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — 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
A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — 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 can avoid reality;but u cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,… — 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 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
