Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am not looking for intelligent disagreement any longer… What I am looking for is intelligent agreement. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
