Books Quote by Ayn Rand

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

— Ayn Rand

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

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

— Ayn Rand

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

— Ayn Rand

“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

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