Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Ayn Rand

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Ayn Rand

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Ayn Rand

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Ayn Rand

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

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

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

Ayn Rand