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
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
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both… — 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
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — 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
