We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

- Ayn Rand

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those …

- Ayn Rand

I don’t approve of religion.

- Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

- Ayn Rand

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

- Ayn Rand

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by …

- Ayn Rand

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may…

- Ayn Rand

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

- Ayn Rand

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men …

- Ayn Rand