“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand
“Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
“Who is John Galt?”
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”
“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.”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”
“A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
“Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.”
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
“An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’”
“Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.”
“Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”
“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
“But I don’t think of you. – Howard Roark.”
“There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.”
“I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”
“A rational man is guided by his thinking – by a process of Reason – not by his feelings and desires.”
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“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.”
“In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.”
“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
“Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.”
“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
“This god, this one word: I.”
“You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.”
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.”
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