“He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You want to do it?" "I might. If you offer me enough." "Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul..." "That's the… — 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
“The secret of the Witch Doctor’s power lies in the fact that man needs an integrated view of life, a philosophy, whether… — 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
If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — 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
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
“But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds… — 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
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to… — 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
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.… — 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
