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
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'm going to die," he said aloud--and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You know, it's such a peculiar thing--our idea of mankind in general. We all have a sort of vague, glowing picture when… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You will live in a world of responsible beings, who will be as consistent and reliable as facts; the guarantee of their… — 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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's said that the worst thing one can do to a man is to kill his self-respect. But that's not true. Self-respect… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices. ... It takes strength to deny yourself… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — 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
