“ Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. Ayn Rand
“ Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolut… Ayn Rand
“ Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it! Ayn Rand
“ It's only a matter of discovering the lever. If you learn how to rule one single man's soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It's the soul, Peter, the soul. Not whips or swords or fire or guns. That'… Ayn Rand
“ It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it. Ayn Rand
“ If it were true, that old legend about appearing before a supreme judge and naming one’s record, I would offer, with all my pride, not any act I committed, but one thing I have never done on this eart… Ayn Rand
“ He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited to see how long it would last. It gave him a strange, hard pleasure t… Ayn Rand
“ He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he w… Ayn Rand
“ Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy.… Ayn Rand
“ Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it… Ayn Rand
“ But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the pride I may take in the price I have paid for that love. Then the wreckage will not become a… Ayn Rand
“ And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanit… Ayn Rand
“ You want to do it?I might. If you offer me enough.Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul...That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the… Ayn Rand
“ When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too pe… Ayn Rand
“ What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are m… Ayn Rand
“ We went on, cutting through the branches, and it was as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves, with the bushes as waves rising and falling and rising around us, and flinging their green sprays h… Ayn Rand
“ Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. Things as they are are things a… Ayn Rand
“ This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to starve - where female infants are killed or abandoned by the roadside- where men g… Ayn Rand
