Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — 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
Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point… — 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
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — 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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