A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow. Ayn Rand Society Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing. Ayn Rand Freedom, Liberty, Work Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand Decision Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. Ayn Rand Affirmation, Focus Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand Opportunity, Success Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand Accountability Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. Ayn Rand Learning Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
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. Ayn Rand Character, Honor, Money, Respect Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Ayn Rand Self, Thinking Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand Freedom, Integrity, Leadership, Society, Work Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Oregon Coast The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand Truth Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked. Ayn Rand Character, Honesty, Integrity, Truth Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
It’s a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. Ayn Rand Leadership Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life. Ayn Rand Freedom, Self-esteem Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Valley of Fire State Park To be exact, writers are self-made. Ayn Rand Leadership, Self Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Tahoe You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand Accountability, Action, Choice Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Grand Cayman Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand Happiness, Values Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Hawaii, Maui The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand Commitment, Self-esteem Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Hawaii, Maui To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power. Ayn Rand Thinking Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true. Ayn Rand Belief, Fear Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Tahoe Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Ayn Rand Thinking, Wealth Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Ayn Rand Failure, Principle Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Glacier National Park If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. Ayn Rand Love, Respect, Self-esteem Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Hawaii, Kula, Maui Money is the root of all good. Ayn Rand Money, Perception Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man. Ayn Rand Adversity, Hero Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me