Ayn Rand quotes - page 7

An individualist is a man who says: "I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself." (Ayn Rand)
The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence. View quote
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When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good-and please don't regard me as wholly evil!" View quote
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Worry is a waste of emotional reserve"." View quote
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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. View quote
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I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it. This applies to any alleged sacrifice for those one loves. View quote
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Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched"." View quote
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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. View quote
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Many words have been granted me, and some are wise and some are false, but only three are holy 'I will it' View quote
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He liked to observe emotions they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. View quote
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Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault. (Ayn Rand)
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. View quote
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If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. View quote
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But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark. View quote
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But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love. View quote
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I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself. View quote
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She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. View quote
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The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. View quote
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It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence. View quote
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Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe. View quote
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Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart. (Ayn Rand)
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. View quote
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A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. View quote
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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. View quote
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. View quote
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