The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
AYN RANDI swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
AYN RANDPeople create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDI 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 RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
AYN RANDThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDI never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDMan cannot survive except through his mind.
AYN RANDThere are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
AYN RANDA businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
AYN RANDThe smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RAND