“Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind… — 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
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Wheeling his bicycle by his side, the boy took the narrow path down the slope of the hill to the valley and… — 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
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime. — 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
Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute. — 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
“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the… — 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
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
