No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is, however, a court of appeal from one's judgements: objective reality. A judge puts himself on trial every time he pronounces… — 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
