Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
AYN RANDThe man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDDon’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDI started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
AYN RANDRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
AYN RANDI never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
AYN RANDContradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
AYN RANDI am done with this creed of corruption.
AYN RANDAll life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
AYN RANDForce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDAn irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
AYN RANDTo sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
AYN RAND