“ This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to suppo… Ayn Rand
“ These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was… Ayn Rand
“ There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done… Ayn Rand
“ There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of eth… 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 their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on ear… Ayn Rand
“ There was nothing she could say to them--nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter… Ayn Rand
“ The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. Ayn Rand
“ The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defens… Ayn Rand
“ The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe. Ayn Rand
“ So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun. 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 one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same… Ayn Rand
“ She stood, in a room of crumbling plaster, pressed to the window-pane, looking up at the unattainable form of everything she loved. She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that n… Ayn Rand
“ She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city. Ayn Rand
“ Rules? said Roark. Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same p… Ayn Rand
“ Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of unfocussing his mind, the suspension of his conciousness, which is not… Ayn Rand
“ Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it. We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a bu… Ayn Rand
“ My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names. There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men. So let us choose our names. I have read of a m… Ayn Rand
