Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public...
AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND I'm the original.
SALLY RAND When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
SALLY RAND I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
SALLY RAND They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a canno...
SALLY RAND What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmot...
SALLY RAND If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
SALLY RAND I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
SALLY RAND Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be ...
RAND BEERS Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document tha...
RAND BEERS I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese...
RAND BEERS Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageabl...
RAND BEERS The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associa...
RAND BEERS We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been d...
RAND BEERS I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
AYN RAND It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...
AYN RAND To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
AYN RAND The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse...
AYN RAND Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of ...
AYN RAND Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
AYN RAND I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises....
AYN RAND Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in ...
RAND PAUL He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If y...
AYN RAND Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
AYN RAND To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
AYN RAND I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our ...
RAND PAUL America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...
AYN RAND Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
AYN RAND Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
RAND PAUL Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's ...
RAND PAUL The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ...
AYN RAND There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...
AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
AYN RAND People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an ac...
AYN RAND ...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by ot...
AYN RAND Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-...
AYN RAND Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, i...
AYN RAND Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, t...
AYN RAND Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...
AYN RAND Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...
AYN RAND Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...
AYN RAND Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...
AYN RAND People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Refl...
AYN RAND She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
AYN RAND I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
AYN RAND Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t...
AYN RAND Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RAND I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not...
AYN RAND If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
AYN RAND I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
AYN RAND To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an...
AYN RAND Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RAND To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
AYN RAND The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RAND This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which giv...
AYN RAND Man's consciousness is his least known and most abused vital organ. Most people believe that conscio...
AYN RAND What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving,...
AYN RAND A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
AYN RAND Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for...
AYN RAND The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man'...
AYN RAND A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow,...
AYN RAND All public interest legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the ...
AYN RAND If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Obje...
AYN RAND Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property righ...
AYN RAND There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
AYN RAND That which you call your soul or spirit is your conciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is...
AYN RAND The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me'.
AYN RAND An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a c...
AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
AYN RAND The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to ...
AYN RAND Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition...
AYN RAND I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will lear...
AYN RAND Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but...
AYN RAND From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, ...
AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial of...
AYN RAND People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is lo...
AYN RAND So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
AYN RAND "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and en...
AYN RAND Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we n...
AYN RAND Thinking men cannot be ruled.
AYN RAND "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and en...
AYN RAND Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
AYN RAND Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you...
AYN RAND Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of rea...
AYN RAND The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e...
AYN RAND America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive...
AYN RAND Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties...
AYN RAND Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a gove...
AYN RAND A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of p...
AYN RAND Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AYN RAND ...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know,...
AYN RAND A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
AYN RAND Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him a...
AYN RAND Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
AYN RAND Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m...
AYN RAND We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
AYN RAND To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
AYN RAND When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but ...
AYN RAND There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
AYN RAND Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or w...
AYN RAND Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c...
AYN RAND Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is...
AYN RAND A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.
AYN RAND Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake...
AYN RAND Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciou...
AYN RAND Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
PAUL RAND Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishono...
AYN RAND Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RAND The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RAND In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they loo...
PAUL RAND I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
RAND PAUL Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ...
AYN RAND The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depend...
PAUL RAND The precondition to freedom is security.
RAND BEERS If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
AYN RAND Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
RAND PAUL Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopol...
AYN RAND The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren'...
AYN RAND Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: ta...
PAUL RAND Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without subst...
PAUL RAND Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arr...
PAUL RAND If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don&...
PAUL RAND There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts...
PAUL RAND Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
PAUL RAND Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two...
PAUL RAND Design is everything. Everything!
PAUL RAND Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymme...
PAUL RAND The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
PAUL RAND I was too practical to want to be a painter.
PAUL RAND If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy t...
PAUL RAND Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer'...
PAUL RAND Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that frag...
PAUL RAND I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of ...
PAUL RAND Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in har...
PAUL RAND A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written ...
PAUL RAND You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
PAUL RAND I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity...
PAUL RAND Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
AYN RAND The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats...
RAND BEERS The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
AYN RAND I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republi...
RAND PAUL It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
RAND PAUL Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and a...
RAND PAUL The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b...
AYN RAND The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
AYN RAND I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...
RAND PAUL To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
AYN RAND When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand a...
AYN RAND No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right...
RAND PAUL I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
RAND PAUL And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...
RAND PAUL Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but eve...
RAND PAUL If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
RAND PAUL Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independenc...
AYN RAND Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints...
AYN RAND I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable ego...
AYN RAND There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another ...
AYN RAND America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
RAND PAUL Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their bac...
AYN RAND I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
SALLY RAND From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, ...
AYN RAND Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave th...
AYN RAND To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and me...
PAUL RAND Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or...
PAUL RAND I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you ...
RAND PAUL We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free ...
AYN RAND Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent eleme...
PAUL RAND I don't plan on being bashful.
RAND PAUL Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
AYN RAND