Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them… — 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. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that… — 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. The Bill of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought… — 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
