Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a… — 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
“They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if… — 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
“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
“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.” — 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
“If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us? We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we… — 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
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame… — 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
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's… — 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
