Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
- Ayn Rand , Russian-born American Author
Ayn Rand Quotes
Thinking men cannot be ruled.
- Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights,
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Quotes
Don’t work for my happiness, my brothers–show me yours–show me your achievement–and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Thinking men cannot be ruled.
- Ayn Rand
An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
- John Galt, Atlas Shrugged
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit-and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
- Hank Reardon, Atlas Shrugged
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
- Ayn Rand
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), 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
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)
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