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
I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — 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