Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life… — 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
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you want me to remind you that you once swore to make my happiness aim of your life? And that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, 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
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
