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“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are."

- John Gault”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“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.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”

Ayn Rand book The Virtue of Selfishness

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”

Ayn Rand book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

“… if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?”

Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

The Ayn Rand Column ‘Introducing Objectivism’

“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem (1937)

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Variant: The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
Source: The Fountainhead

“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Variant: Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
Source: Anthem

“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.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged