Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but… — 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
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