“ I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. Ayn Rand
“ When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. Ayn Rand
“ We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma tha… Ayn Rand
“ There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.I am referring here to romantic love, in the serious meaning of that term—as d… Ayn Rand
“ The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity. Ayn Rand
“ Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. Ayn Rand
“ Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest… Ayn Rand
“ You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon— Ayn Rand
“ Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant… Ayn Rand
“ I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.You call that freedom?To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn Rand
“ Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
“ Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand
“ Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the resu… Ayn Rand
“ I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. Ayn Rand
“ We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. Ayn Rand
