Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes… — 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
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — 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
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — 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
