If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those… — 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
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — 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
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — 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
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — 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
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