Quotes About Ayn Rand

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality.

The letters said: ". . . in a momentous drama giving the answer to the great problem: Should a woman tell?

Reason is not automatic. Those that deny it cannot be conquered by it.

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.

those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism.

she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of a revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first time

Did you ask me to name man's motive power? Man's motive power is his moral code. Ask yourself where their code is leading you and what it offers you as your final goal. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

It was the ultimate form of our admiration for each other, with full knowledge of the values by which we made our choice.

The relief was not in the surrender of responsibility, but in the sight of a man able to assume it.

Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They

When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he had preached, he came to live in America.

the problem of survival is solved, by recognizing that survival demands constant growth and creativeness

Why had she always felt that joyous sense of confidence when looking at machines?—she thought. In these giant shapes, two aspects pertaining to the inhuman were radiantly absent: the causeless and the purposeless. Every part of the motors was an embodied answer to "Why?" and "What for?"—like the steps of a life-course chosen by the sort of mind she worshipped. The motors were a moral code cast in steel.

It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt

Entonces los que se odian a sí mismos y los que odian la vida, sólo conciben una única forma equivalente al amor: la destrucción. Lillian lo habia elegido por lo mejor de sus virtudes.

a man with an immense capacity for the enjoyment of existence.

The main issue was the attempt to make the country accept mass civil disobedience as a proper and valid tool of political action.

I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. | ~~Ayn Rand "Philosophy: Who Needs It, 10

She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.

directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for insurance.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

city. It looked as it had always looked. He walked on, reminding himself that he

An irrational society is a society of moral cowards- of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards , principles, and goals