Ayn Rand

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Ayn Rand

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ayn Rand

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Ayn Rand

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.

Ayn Rand

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn’t – doesn’t live at all.

Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Ayn Rand

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

Ayn Rand