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Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other. — Ayn Rand

Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth. — Ayn Rand

She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland. — Ayn Rand

There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity? — Ayn Rand

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. — Ayn Rand

It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. — Ayn Rand

I love to look at you. I always think of what Gordon Prescott said. He said that you are God's perfect exercise in structural mathematics. — Ayn Rand

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. — Ayn Rand

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. — Ayn Rand

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Dominique Francon — Ayn Rand

He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together. — Ayn Rand

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. — Ayn Rand

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. — Ayn Rand

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. — Ayn Rand

Economic strength to make a start. How do you expect — Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. — Ayn Rand

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine. — Rob Lowe

What are you laughing at?"
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand

It is not fools that I seek to address. — Ayn Rand

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics. — Ayn Rand

When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby. — Ayn Rand

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical. — Ayn Rand

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice. — Ayn Rand

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought. — Ayn Rand

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind. — Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate. — Ayn Rand

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. — Ayn Rand

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours — Ayn Rand

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy. — Ayn Rand

On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm. — Ayn Rand

In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. — Ayn Rand

But I don't think of you. — Ayn Rand

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood. — Ayn Rand

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand

How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you? — Ayn Rand

The mark of an honest man ... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. — Ayn Rand

They were people who believed that mediocrity was safe. — Ayn Rand

A moment or an eternity - did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. — Ayn Rand

It is so commonplace," she drawled, "to be understood by everybody. — Ayn Rand

There's nothing important on earth, except human beings. There's nothing as important about human beings as their relations to one another ... — Ayn Rand

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. — Ayn Rand

And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. — Ayn Rand

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. — Ayn Rand

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by. — Ayn Rand

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone. — Ayn Rand

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment. — Ayn Rand

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. — Ayn Rand

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand) — Claudia Roth Pierpont

For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn't interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does. — Ayn Rand

You're the most immoral man living - you think of nothing but justice! — Ayn Rand

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. — Ayn Rand

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. — Ayn Rand

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more. — Rob Zerban

I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. — Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men. — Ayn Rand

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it! — Ayn Rand

One moves step by step and one must keep moving. — Ayn Rand

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes. — Ayn Rand

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. — Ayn Rand

The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought. — Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. — Ayn Rand

You are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic. — Ayn Rand

Nothing can justify injustice. — Ayn Rand

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him
The reasoning mind. — Ayn Rand

But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue. — Ayn Rand

Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a compromise. — Ayn Rand

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. — Ayn Rand

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. — Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both. — Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out. — Ayn Rand

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces. — Ayn Rand

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

Lobbying is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. — Ayn Rand

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. — Ayn Rand

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death. — Jarett Kobek

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. — Ayn Rand

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly. — Ayn Rand

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — Ayn Rand

- mind, Miss Taggart? My mind is not on the market any longer. — Ayn Rand

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. — Ayn Rand

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand

You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity. — Mark David Henderson

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes. — Ayn Rand

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. — Ayn Rand

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act ... — Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. — Ayn Rand

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. — Ayn Rand