We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — 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
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
“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification… — 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
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — 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
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you 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
