“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“what’s the most depraved type of human being?” “The man without a purpose.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are the guardians of a great human function. Perhaps of the greatest function among the endeavors of man. We have achieved… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A man’s method of using his consciousness determines his method of survival. The three contestants are Attila, the Witch Doctor and the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept… — 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
“This was his glory and his guilt-- that he let them teach him to feel guilty of his glory, to accept the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends… — 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
