You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — 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
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — 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
