Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it..
It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explana….
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolati….
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wis….
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality ….
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's ….
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement..
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a ….
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the begg….
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certain….
I think, therefore I'll think..
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consc….
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..
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's th….
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited an….
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make ou….
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition..
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a stand….
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowaday….
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights..
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of m….