“Jim,” she said once, after an evening spent among the men who were called the intellectual leaders of the country, “Dr. Simon… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The secret of the Witch Doctor’s power lies in the fact that man needs an integrated view of life, a philosophy, whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man’s… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will… — 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
