“The month behind her had gone, leaving nothing but the blank of dead time. It had gone into the planless, thankless work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But you've never wanted that. You wanted a mirror. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he… — 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
