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
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — 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 man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love… — 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
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
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. — 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
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
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is… — 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
Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary… — 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
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live… — 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 is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — 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
