An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — 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
The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — 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
