Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — 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
I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.… — 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
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — 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
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth… — 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
