Ayn Rand

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind – follow your mind.

Ayn Rand

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

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

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society – you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Ayn Rand