Quotes by : Ayn Rand

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to....

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only....

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view....

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it action presupposes a goal that is worth....

Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made....

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When....

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .....

The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare....

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force,....