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
“Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and… — 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
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able… — 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
“Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being… — 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 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
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality — 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
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. — 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
