Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real… — 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
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and… — 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
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no… — 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
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — 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
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is… — 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
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live… — 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
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
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
