You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is our response to our highest values. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.” — 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
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“God, I've missed you!" he said, and knew that he had, every day since he'd seen her last and most of all,… — 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
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
“You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, dominated, because… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath… — 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
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for… — 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
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not… — 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… — 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
“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...… — 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
“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know… — 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
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours — 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
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect… — 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
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is a response to values. The amoralist’s actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It’s no more than a fact and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — 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
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
