“ Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their al… Ayn Rand
“ Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. Ayn Rand
“ Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to… Ayn Rand
“ Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an attribute of the individual.The basic need of the creator is independence. The reaso… Ayn Rand
“ Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He… Ayn Rand
“ Lillian moved forward to meet her, studying her with curiosity. They had met before, on infrequent occasions, and she found it strange to see Dagny Taggart wearing an evening gown. It was a black dres… Ayn Rand
“ It‘s so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea. Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I’ll ever understand. Ayn Rand
“ It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to any… Ayn Rand
“ It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see… Ayn Rand
“ It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain. Ayn Rand
“ If a man says: But I realize that my natural endowments are mediocre—shall I then suffer, be ashamed, have an inferiority complex? The answer is: In the basic, crucial sphere, the sphere of morality a… Ayn Rand
“ I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The p… Ayn Rand
“ He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete… Ayn Rand
“ He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. THe lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone- flowing. The s… Ayn Rand
“ He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived. Ayn Rand
“ Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. Ayn Rand
“ Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your nei… Ayn Rand
“ Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. Ayn Rand
“ Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building , when and if you are an architect?Yes.My dear fellow, who will let you?That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me? Ayn Rand
