“ No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. Ayn Rand
“ Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
“ To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defi… Ayn Rand
“ There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's lik… Ayn Rand
“ The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. Ayn Rand
“ She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat against his shoulders, against his face. He moved one had, took her two wrists, pinned t… Ayn Rand
“ I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain. Ayn Rand
“ I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. Ayn Rand
“ Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. Ayn Rand
“ 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 all rather silly. And useless.Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely beca… Ayn Rand
“ Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?—by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of sp… Ayn Rand
“ There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to… Ayn Rand
