“Men who have found tbe right way of life do not seek to escape from awareness, to obliterate their consciousness, and to… — 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
If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — 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
“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
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
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
Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Dagny, there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — 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
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring… — 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
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
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
“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
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man–every man–is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — 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
Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its… — 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
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She did not expect to find him in the city; she did not want to find him. She never worried whether he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You can’t be hard on a man who needs you, it will prey on your conscience for the rest of your life.”… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought… — 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
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — 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
![“Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both…” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a47/ayn-rand-59_ability_needless-to-say-under-either-system-soci_3228022.jpg)
![“If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/644/ayn-rand-59_creative_if-people-place-such-things-as-friendshi_53834.jpg)
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
![“Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/485/ayn-rand-59_barriers_man-holds-these-rights-life-liberty-and_3150091.jpg)
