Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — 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
