Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”

“Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”

“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

“I think. I am. I will.”

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”

“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”

“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

“Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart”

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

“every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.”

“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”

“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”