Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--
show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--
and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
--Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
--Ayn Rand, American novelist and philosopher
There is no room for the arbitrary in any activity of man, least of all in his method of cognition,
and just as he has learned to be guided by objective criteria in making his physical tools,
so he must be guided by objective criteria in forming his tools of cognition: his concepts.
--Ayn Rand, (1905-1982) Alice Rosenbaum
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes,
for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well--business as usual, Mr. Ward!
--Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual,
but permitted to a mob.
--Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins.
--Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights,
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
--Ayn Rand
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
--Ayn Rand
Thinking men cannot be ruled.
--Ayn Rand
