Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Maybe you can't afford to give them a raise, but how can they afford to live when the cost of living has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning… — 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
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact… — 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
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Those whom he kept for a month became his friends for life. They did not call themselves friends; they did not praise… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — 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
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — 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
