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
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
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all… — 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
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
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what… — 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
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by… — 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
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. — 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
“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
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
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — 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
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
