This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — 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
“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others… — 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
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — 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
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. — 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 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
