You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDYou love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDA man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
AYN RANDPolitically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
AYN RANDI am done with this creed of corruption.
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
AYN RANDShe did not know the nature of her loneliness.
AYN RANDAll life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDPoverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDYou have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
AYN RANDRacism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
AYN RANDIt is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
AYN RANDThe essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
AYN RAND