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
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — 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
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves. — 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 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
