Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any… — 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
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. — 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
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .… — 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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