Quotes from Ayn Rand

The desperate violence of the way he held her, the hurting pressure of his mouth on hers, the exultant surrender of his body to the touch of hers, were not the form of a moment's pleasure— she knew that no physical hunger could bring a man to this—she knew that it was the statement she had never heard from him, the greatest confession of love a man could make .

centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

El estatismo necesita la guerra; un país libre no. El estatismo sobrevive a través del saqueo; un país libre sobrevive produciendo.

He led her to the bedroom, he took off her clothes, without a word, in the manner of an owner undressing a person whose consent is not required. He clasped the pendant on her shoulders. She stood naked, the stone between her breasts, like a sparkling drop of blood.

Sana, sende gördükleri iyi ÅŸeyler yüzünden zarar vermek, seni incitmek isteyen insanlar da olacakt?r.

depravity." She

Todo aquel que se respeta no gusta de verse convertido en vaca lechera de la comunidad.

He realized that he was thinking of his past, as if certain days of it were spread before him, demanding to be seen again.

It's not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.

justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists. . .

He saw the tension of the face, the speed of the walk, the drunken exhilaration of the body, drunk on the energy of sleepless nights, the proud lift of the head, the clear, steady, ruthless eyes, the eyes of a man who drove himself without pity toward that which he wanted.

Thought - he told himself quietly - is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one's purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense.

Sayg? duymad???n?z insanlardan gelen övgü ve hayranl???n ne önemi var?

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...

Barre a un lado a esos parásitos de academia subsidiados, que viven de las ganancias de la mente de otros y proclaman que el hombre no necesita moral, ni valores, ni código de conducta. Esos, que se consideran científicos y aseguran que el hombre es sólo un animal, al que no conceden en el mapa de la existencia el lugar que le han concedido al más insignificante de los insectos.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." Book-

My dear madam, the duty of thinkers is not to explain, but to demonstrate that nothing can be explained. The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge, but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man.

If, in the course of philosophical detection, you find yourself, at times, stopped by the indignantly bewildered question: "How could anyone arrive at such nonsense?"—you will begin to understand it when you discover that evil philosophies are systems of rationalization.

You're unbearably conceited, was one of the two sentences she heard throughout her childhood, even though she never spoke of her own ability. The other sentence was: You're selfish. She asked what was meant, but never received an answer. She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

No, you can never ruin an architect by proving that he's a bad architect. But you can ruin him because he's an atheist, or because somebody sued him, or because he slept with some woman, or because he pulls wings off bottleflies. You'll say it doesn't make sense? Of course it doesn't. That's why it works. Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

a very costly simplicity, one can notice, but not the elegance of a woman who gives much thought to her clothes; rather that of one who knows she can make any rag attractive and does it unconsciously." Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.

I, who do not accept the unearned, neither in values nor in guilt