“But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you." "Me what?" "Just you here. Or you in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt a potential love for someone? Like, you don't actually love them and you know you don't, but you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and… — 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
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that… — 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
