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

Words are a lens to focus one's mind. — Ayn Rand

They smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling: it's not joy, it's pleading. — 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

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records. — Rand Paul

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. — Ayn Rand

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit. — Rand Paul

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. — Ayn Rand

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it. — Ayn Rand

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

Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards — Ayn Rand

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to. — Rand Paul

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. — Ayn Rand

Shortest distance between two points is not a straight line - it's a middleman. — Ayn Rand

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out. — Ayn Rand

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

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — 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

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below. — Ayn Rand

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind. — Ayn Rand

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. — 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

It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it. — Ayn Rand

God ... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. — Ayn Rand

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

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other. — Ayn Rand

There's no way to make the irrational work. — Ayn Rand

I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. — Ayn Rand

No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood. — Ayn Rand

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. — 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

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious — Ayn Rand

To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer. — Ayn Rand

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. — Ayn Rand

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know? — Rand Paul

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries. — Rand Paul

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. — Ayn Rand

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art. — Ayn Rand

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers. — Ayn Rand

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. — Ayn Rand

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it. — Rand Paul

One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself. — Ayn Rand

Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of). — Anna Quindlen

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. — Ayn Rand

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules. — Paul Rand

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in. — Rand Paul

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name
I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r. — Ayn Rand

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests, — Rand Paul

If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night's flocks, lad, it's Trollocs. — Robert Jordan

When one makes enemies one knows that one's dangerous where it's necessary to be dangerous. — Ayn Rand

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. — Ayn Rand

It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain. — Ayn Rand

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem. — Jeff Britting

Live your life somewhere in between Ayn Rand and Mother Theresa. It's just as important to better yourself as it is to better others. — Gregor Collins

The naked shoulder was gown's only ornament — Ayn Rand

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her. — Lisa Lutz

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. — Ayn Rand

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads — Ayn Rand

If you write a whole line of zeros,it's still nothing, (Kira Alexandrovna) — 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

The source of work? Man's mind ... man's reasoning mind. — Ayn Rand

Man's character is the product of his premises. — Ayn Rand

Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances. — Rand Paul

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. — Rand Paul

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

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. — 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 unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand

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

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

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

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

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

Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ... — Ayn Rand

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code.. — Ayn Rand

Francisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand

All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil. — Ayn Rand

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand

What I've got to offer you is your life.'
'It's not yours to offer ... — Ayn Rand

The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others. - AYN RAND — Robin S. Sharma

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence. — Ayn Rand

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand. — Paul Ryan

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money. — Rand Paul

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. — Robert Jordan

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity. — Rand Paul

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong. — Paul Rand

So there it came, out of nowhere, as Rand begged for his daughter's return: a killer smile. — Gillian Flynn

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. — Rand Paul

It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach. — Ayn Rand

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice — Ayn Rand

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand