Here’s another. Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled. We don’t want any great men. Don’t deny conception of greatness. Destro...
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not...
He saw an evening when he sat slumped across his desk in that office. It was late and his staff had left; so he could lie there alone, unwitnessed. He was tired. It was as if he had run a race against...
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and i...
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his wo...
What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park...
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only...
But their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with...
You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.
Yes! And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows hi...
Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day
We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.
Volumes can be and have been written aboutthe issue of freedom versus dictatorship,but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:
This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours