“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Why did you decide to be an architect?" "I didn't know it then. But it's because I've never believed in God." "Come… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“such is their image of man’s nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost,” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He belonged in the countryside, she thought—he belonged everywhere—he was a man who belonged on earth—and then she thought of the words… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If a man says: “But I realize that my natural endowments are mediocre—shall I then suffer, be ashamed, have an inferiority complex?”… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — 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
“The public has a vital stake in natural resources, Jim, such as iron ore. The public can’t remain indifferent to reckless, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — 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
