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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 38

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You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

Wish, Damnation, Share

Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.90, BookCaps Study Guides

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

Men, Kira, Reverence

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.316, Penguin

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

Motivation, Selfish, Goal

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Moving, Emotional, Mind

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

Beautiful, Silly, Thinking

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.88, Penguin

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Choices, Demand, Objects

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.997, Penguin

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

Motivation, Selfish, People

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Brother, Men, Anthem

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.49, Xist Publishing

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Causes, Illusion, Vicious

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.297, Penguin

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Wish, Ignored, Affection

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.28, Hamilton Books

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

Memories, Years, Battle

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.88, Hamilton Books

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Standing, Know How, Knows

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.110, Hamilton Books

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Men, Dedication, Pages

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.399, Penguin

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Mistake, Fighting, Individualism

"Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

Character, Principles, Moral

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Country, School, Choices

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Acceptance, Productive Work, Facts

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.963, Penguin

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

Life, Song, Believe

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Mother, Children, Passion

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

Jobs, Men, Care

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.35, Penguin

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

Time, Money, Sorry

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.45, Penguin

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Communication, Sight, Achievement

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.176, Penguin

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Winning, Evil, Want

Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Men, Names, Mind

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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