To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — 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
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — 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
“The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good… — 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
“and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — 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
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — 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
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
