Quotes About Individualism

Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life.

The power of ideas has no reality for either of them, and neither cares to learn that the proof of that power lies in his own chronic sense of guilt and terror.

Durante siglos la batalla de la moralidad fue librada entre quienes proclamaban que la vida pertenece a Dios y quienes decían que pertenece al prójimo, entre quienes predicaban que la bondad es el autosacrificio en favor de unos fantasmas celestes y quienes predicaban que el bien es el auto-sacrificio en favor de los incompetentes de la tierra. Pero nadie vino a decir que vuestra vida os pertenece y que el bien reside en vivirla.

Si nos preguntamos cuáles son las razones que subyacen en la fea mezcla de cinismo y culpa en la que pasa su vida la mayoría de los hombres, diremos que son estas: cinismo, porque ni practican ni aceptan la moralidad altruista; culpa, porque no se atreven a rechazarla.

The ethics of altruism has created the image of the brute, as its answer, in order to make men accept two inhuman tenets: (a) that any concern with one's own interests is evil, regardless of what these interests might be, and (b) that the brute's activities are in fact to one's own interest (which altruism enjoins man to renounce for the sake of his neighbors). For a view of the

dejad al caníbal que gruñe que la libertad de la mente humana fue necesaria para crear una civilización industrial, pero no para mantenerla...

There is no such thing as a temporary suicide.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other. The dollar sign, as the symbol of the currency of a free country, is the symbol of the free mind.

A world with its motor cut off and a single heart, pumped by hand.

And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.

Do you have to be quite so fanatical and selfless about it? What? Roark asked, incredulously. Fanatical and selfless! Roark smiled. He looked down at his drawings. His elbowed moved, pressing them to his body. He said That was the most selfish thing you've ever seen a man do.

Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who has earned the thing you didn't fight for.... I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. "I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.

Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it—and that there is no other way for him to live. He

She's like nothing you bastards ever dreamed of!

Is it true that in the future society any woman will sleep with any man she wants," asked Renée Slottern. It had started as a question, but it petered out. She did not really want to know. She merely felt a vapid wonder about how it felt to have a man one really wanted and how one went about wanting.

good to enjoy it at the price of the blood of others.

moral absolute one does not

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness.

Ellos eran el mundo; ellos y no los que permanecían agazapados en rincones obscuros, mendigando o amenazando, a la vez que mostraban sus abiertas llagas, como única aspiración a la vida y la virtud.

Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach.

What is it that you're all doing here?" "Living.