If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible… — 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
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