It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — 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
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices. — 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
“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
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
“If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us? We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we… — 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
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
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” — 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
“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
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
“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
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
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free… — 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
“It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — 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
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
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
Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as… — 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
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
“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
“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
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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