It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — 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
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — 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
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — 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