The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in… — 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
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about… — 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
