America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — 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
