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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 20

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She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Trust, Honesty, People

"Atlas Shrugged".

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Letting Go, Pain, Views

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.907, Penguin

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

Years, Looks, Moments

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.106, Penguin

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

Philosophy, Acceptance, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.302, Penguin

Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.

Sleep, Men, Break Through

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Sacrifice, Animal, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.33, Penguin

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

Integrity, Taken, Men

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.161, Penguin

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

Heart, Cutting, Ego

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

Trust, Struggle, Men

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.12, Penguin

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Achievement, Lucky, Rotten

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.551, Penguin

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Independent, Men, Sovereign

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Men, Practice, Choices

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

Eye, Sight, Vision

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Peace, Truth, Freedom

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.224, Penguin

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Joy, Together, Growing

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.38, Hamilton Books

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Life, Hymns, Snow

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.436, Penguin

Never ask people about your work.

Inspirational, People, Asks

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Suicide, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1501, Penguin

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Responsibility, Men, Effort

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.129, Penguin

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

Thinking, Trying, Down And

Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”, E P Dutton

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Humor, Deep Thought, Action

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Philosophy, Men, Political

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Art, Reality, Judgment

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.60, Penguin

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Life, Power, Needs

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.101, BookCaps Study Guides

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

Reflection, Echoes, Mirrors

Ayn Rand (1996). “The Fountainhead”, Turtleback Books

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