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The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand.

She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness.

the response he received was only a woman's acceptance of a casual pleasure, and he knew too clearly that what he had won had no meaning.

the first word of 'Free, scientific inquiry' was redundant. He seems to have forgotten it. Well, I'll just say that 'Governmental scientific inquiry' is a contradiction in terms.

He telephoned half an hour ago. Mr. Gail Wynand.

Held motionless by wonder, she stood looking at him, taking this moment, not in the name of the present, but as a salute to their past.

The punishment she had wanted to inflict on him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom.

glassy rustle which was the East River somewhere close by

Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who has earned the thing you didn't fight for.... I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.

those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism.

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice.

The relief was not in the surrender of responsibility, but in the sight of a man able to assume it.

When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he had preached, he came to live in America.

the problem of survival is solved, by recognizing that survival demands constant growth and creativeness

a man with an immense capacity for the enjoyment of existence.

The main issue was the attempt to make the country accept mass civil disobedience as a proper and valid tool of political action.

She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.

directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for insurance.

city. It looked as it had always looked. He walked on, reminding himself that he

The destroyer, she realized, was the name of that vision, here, in their world.

The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The

Wearing the hijab has given me freedom from constant attention to my physical self. Because my appearance is not subject to public scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps my lack of it, has been removed from the realm of what can legitimately be discussed.

Perpetration of serious violence and crime is in fact the most distinctive sex difference there is, cross-culturally.