Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his… — 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
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
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
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — 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
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,… — 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
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — 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
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — 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
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever… — 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
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — 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
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
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul… — 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
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that… — 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
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.… — 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
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city,… — 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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