12.11.05
Ayn Rand Quotes
Ayn Rand Quotes
If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice, he is not willing to live as a slave.
- Ayn Rand - John Galt in “Atlas Shrugged”
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another’s values.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of ‘Business as usual.’ Well–business as usual, Mr. Ward!
- Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”
Existence is Identity.
- Ayn Rand - John Galt in “Atlas Shrugged”
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
- Ayn Rand - John Galt in “Atlas Shrugged”
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
- Ayn Rand
“…if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders–what would you tell him to do?”
“…what would you tell him to do?”
“To shrug.”
- Ayn Rand (Francisco and Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged)
