To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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
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
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — 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
But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know… — 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
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members,… — 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
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — 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
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — 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
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. — 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
“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason,… — 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
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if… — 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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