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I was too practical to want to be a painter. — Paul Rand

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

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending. — Rand Paul

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

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. — Rand Paul

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

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

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. — Rand Paul

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

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government. — Rand Paul

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality. — Rand Olson

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves. — Rand Paul

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

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

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. — Rand Paul

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

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. — Sally Rand

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

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday. — Rand Paul

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. — Rand Paul

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

Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable. — Rand Paul

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

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for. — Rand Paul

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

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. — Rand Paul

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

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

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

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

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

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered. — Rand Paul

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

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

Design is everything. Everything! — Paul 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

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. — Rand Paul

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

Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win. — Kenneth 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

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

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

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

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. — Rand Paul

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

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

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. — Chuck Schumer

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

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. — Rand Paul

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

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo. — Sally 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

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