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“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

“What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”

Ayn Rand book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.”

Ayn Rand book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)