“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one… — 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
“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I swearby my life and my love of itthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence.… — 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
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