Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense… — 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
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — 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
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