“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — 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
