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
[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — 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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