Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — 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
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
