Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — 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
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
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither… — 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
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the… — 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
