For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle," said Jessica Pratt, "the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A man has the free will to think or not. If he does not, he takes what he gets.” — 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
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — 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
“What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic… — 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
