Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions… He will always be attracted to the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom… — 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
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — 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
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher… — 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
The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it… — 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
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason,… — 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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