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
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
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.” — 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
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's… — 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
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — 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
“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
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,… — 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
“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
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — 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
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know… — 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
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw… — 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
