100 Enlightening Quotes By Ayn Rand, The Author Of Atlas Shrugged
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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.
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Who is John Galt?
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
