We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It… — 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
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — 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
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
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — 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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