Ayn Rand: Trending quotes (page 8)

“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”

“Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make
comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse
to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.”

“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”

“I am, therefore I'll think”

“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.”

“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”

“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.”

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”

“She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.”

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”

“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”

“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”

“This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before…The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.”

“There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.”