Ayn Rand

A man’s rights are not violated by a private individual’s refusal to deal with him.

Ayn Rand

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Ayn Rand

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Ayn Rand

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

Ayn Rand

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

Ayn Rand

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Ayn Rand

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

Ayn Rand

All work is an act of philosophy.

Ayn Rand

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn’t spoil their effectiveness.

Ayn Rand

America’s founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more – and nothing less.

Ayn Rand