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He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.
— Ayn Rand
She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.
— Ayn Rand
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us.
— Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
Humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law..
— Ayn Rand
It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year.
— Ayn Rand
He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together.
— Ayn Rand
She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.
— Ayn Rand
Didn't you enjoy meeting the young men?"
"What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of. — Ayn Rand
"What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of. — Ayn Rand
When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.
— Ayn Rand
This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
— Alex Ayres
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
— Ayn Rand
I'll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word 'give.
— Ayn Rand
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
— Elie Wiesel
What are you laughing at?"
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand
"It's wonderful."
"What?"
"The way you don't react as everybody else does nowadays. — Ayn Rand
She had always avoided personal reactions, but she was forced to break her rule when she saw the expression on his face. She burst out laughing.
— Ayn Rand
On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm.
— Ayn Rand
If you believe that you have the right to force me - use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.
— Ayn Rand
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.
— Ayn Rand
Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand.
— Ayn Rand
When he did not smile, his face looked inanimate, only his eyes remained alive, active with a cold, brilliant clarity of perception.
— Ayn Rand
Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
— Ayn Rand
There's no way to make the irrational work.
— Ayn Rand
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
— Ayn Rand
He was a man who had never accepted the creed that others had the right to stop him. He set his goal and moved toward it ...
— Ayn Rand
He had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.
— Ayn Rand
Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
— Ayn Rand
Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship.
— Ayn Rand
I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.
— Ayn Rand
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
— Ayn Rand
Dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.
— Ayn Rand
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.
— Albert S. Ruddy
I refuse to apologize for my ability - I refuse to apologize for my success - I refuse to apologize for my money.
— Ayn Rand
They want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.
— Ayn Rand
You always play it open, don't you?" he asked.
"I've never noticed you doing otherwise."
"I thought I was the only one who could afford to. — Ayn Rand
"I've never noticed you doing otherwise."
"I thought I was the only one who could afford to. — Ayn Rand
He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
No battle was hard, no decision was dangerous where there was no soggy uncertainty, no shapeless evasion to encounter.
— Ayn Rand
What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.
— Ayn Rand
He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.
— Ayn Rand
He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.
— Ayn Rand
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
— Ayn Rand
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand
The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning.
— Ayn Rand
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
— Ayn Rand
Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together.
— Ayn Rand
His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.
— Ayn Rand
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
— Ayn Rand
I am in full agreement with the facts of everything said about me in the newspapers - with the facts, but not with the evaluation.
— Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
— Ayn Rand
She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy - she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..
— Ayn Rand
A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
— Ayn Rand
There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain.
— Ayn Rand
There was so calm, so natural, so total a certainty in the sound of her voice that the mere sound seemed to carry an immense persuasiveness.
— Ayn Rand
There was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.
— Ayn Rand
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
— Henry Rollins
Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives - and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy.
— Ayn Rand
She felt an odd, light-hearted indifference, as if she suddenly wanted nothing but the comfort of surrendering to helplessness.
— Ayn Rand
Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.
— Ayn Rand
This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
— Ayn Rand
Nothing can justify injustice.
— Ayn Rand
She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.
— Ayn Rand
This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
— Ayn Rand
When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others.
— Ayn Rand
To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.
— Ayn Rand
She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.
— Ayn Rand
She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment.
— Ayn Rand
Before Ayn Rand coined the term "objectivists", we just called them "selfish assholes".
— James Rozoff
They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.
— Ayn Rand
If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.
— Ayn Rand
There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical.
— Ayn Rand
The anti-mind is the anti-life.
— Ayn Rand
He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.
— Ayn Rand
The evaluation of an action as 'practical,' depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
— Ayn Rand