Quotes from Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

One man can stop the motor of the world.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

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.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

The source of work? Man's mind...man's reasoning mind.

...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.