In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and uns...
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
There is no such thing as the right to enslave.A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslav...
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who foun...
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their loved ones or friends or business associates or...
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
I am done with the monster of We, the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought sinc...
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
Your ego is your strictest judge.
And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important... What sex should involve is a very serious relationship. Whether that relations...
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...
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes
I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception re...
To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn...
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...