But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — 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
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
“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day.… — 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
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
“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
“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — 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
“We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a… — 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
That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom… — 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 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
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
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it… — 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
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
