Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. — 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
