Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 10)

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

“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”

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

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

“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.”

“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.”

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