I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for 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
