Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Evading the difference between production and looting, they called the businessman a robber. Evading the difference between freedom and compulsion, they called… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only… — 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
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I shall remind you that"rights" are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The man in Drawing Room B, Car No. 4, was a newspaper publisher who believed that men are evil by nature and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If his judgment is to be an object of sacrifice — what sort of efficacy, control, freedom from conflict, or serenity of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness… — 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
“Freedom? Do let’s stop talking about freedom. Freedom is impossible. Man can never be free of hunger, of cold, of disease, of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it… — 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
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Playboy: But you are interested in politics, or at least in political theory, aren’t you? Rand: Let me answer you this way:… — 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
