Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
