Quotes from Ayn Rand, Anthem

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

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

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

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.