If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
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AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the... AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th... AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s... AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l... AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ... AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
the man who disagr... AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's... AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'... AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ... AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. AYN RAND