“And someday the world will discover that without thought there can be no love.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.” — 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
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to… — 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
To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and… — 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
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of… — 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
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 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
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
“He wondered whether he really liked his mother. But she was his mother and this fact was recognized by everybody as meaning… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,… — 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
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — 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
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men (pg. 101). — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — 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
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
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share