“the only thing that can make a man do something he doesn't like is guilt” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — 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
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is not any crime you have committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors… — 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
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He turned to look at Lillian. He was seeing the full extent of her failure—in the immensity of his own indifference. The… — 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
