We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
Ayn RandA rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.
Ayn RandDagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.
Ayn RandAmerica's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
Ayn RandRacism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a manโs genetic lineage-the notion that a manโs intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.
Ayn Rand