Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — 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
Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain… — 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
