Quotes from Ayn Rand

Estamos en huelga contra el martirio y contra el código moral que lo exige, contra quienes creen que uno debe existir sólo para beneficiar a otros y contra esa moral de caníbales, tanto si se practica de un modo material como espiritual.

Those whom he kept for a month became his friends for life. They did not call themselves friends; they did not praise him to outsiders; they did not talk about him. They knew only, in a dim way, that it was not loyalty to him, but to the best within themselves.

La suspención de una amenaza no constituye pago; la negación de un elemento negativo no es recompensa; la retirada de sus rufianes armados no constituye incentivo; la oferta de no asesinarme, no representa ningún valor.

Por su parte, él descubrió aquella noche que su reconquistado amor a la existencia no le era otorgado por haber sentido otra vez deseo de ella, sino que el deseo se suscitó luego de haber recuperado su mundo; el apego al valor y al sentido del mismo.

It had been said that men develop brains when they have failed in everything else.

Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wreath is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Everyone living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

That doesn't matter. Not even that they'll destroy it. Only that it had existed." She

Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking men.

I diritti individuali non possono essere sottoposti al voto perché la maggioranza non ha il diritto di votare contro i diritti di una minoranza. La funzione politica dei diritti, in una visione liberale, è precisamente quella di proteggere le minoranze dall'oppressione della maggioranza.

Usted no quiere que piense. Cuando fuerza a un hombre a actuar contra su placer y a su juicio, es su pensamiento el que desea suprimir. Anhela convertirlo en un robot. Pues bien, obraré de acuerdo con esto.

Have you always liked being Howard Roark?" Roark smiled. The smile was amused, astonished, involuntarily contemptuous.

Obrando con razón y justicia, sólo se podía llegar a un resultado.

The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The

No es preciso esforzarse en respetar a quien merece respeto; tan sólo se le paga lo que es debido.

gathered into the single will of pressure, that a shaft of steel

Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.

all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind

Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't—doesn't live at all.

Hank Rearden is the kind of man who sticks his name on everything he touches. You may, from this, form your own opinion about the character of Hank Rearden.

I don't see it. It's a backward, primitive, unenlightened place. They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody. I don't see why all our best companies want to run there." The

No saben por que están aquí. En cambio, nosotros lo sabemos. No saben quién es su prisionero. Nosotros, sí. No saben por qué sus jefes quieren que lo vigilen. En cambio, nosotros sabemos muy bien por qué queremos sacarlo de aquí. No se dan cuenta del objetivo de su lucha, pero nosotros sí sabemos cuál es el de la nuestra. Si mueren no sabrán por qué. nosotros sí lo sabemos.

Pero te encontrarás con gente que intentará herirte através de lo bueno que haya en ti, sabiendo que es bueno, necesitándolo y aborreciéndote por ello. No te dejes atropellar cuando descubras semejante actitud en los otros.

Es malo tener éxito, ya que el éxito se consigue por los fuertes a expensas de los débiles? Hemos dejado de agobiar a los débiles con nuestra ambición y quedan en libertad de prosperar sin nosotros.

He had the ease of an expert, so confident that it seemed casual, but it was the ease of a tremendous concentration, the concentration on one's task that has the ruthlessness of an absolute.