“To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Rearden sat in his room at the Wayne-Falkland Hotel, fighting an enemy more dangerous than weariness or fear: revulsion against the thought… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We look upon our hands. We see the dust of centuries, the dust which hid great secrets and perhaps great evils. And… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — 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
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'm going to die," he said aloud--and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid anymore. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all… — 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
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