Ayn Rand quotes - page 11

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)
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. View quote
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Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces. View quote
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There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. View quote
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Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. View quote
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I think. I am. I will. View quote
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Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. View quote
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Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue. (Ayn Rand)
Never ask people about your work. View quote
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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it. View quote
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For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling. View quote
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Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind. View quote
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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? 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. That is freedom. That and nothing else. View quote
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. View quote
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Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? View quote
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This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue. View quote
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I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. View quote
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? (Ayn Rand)
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. View quote
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... 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? View quote
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