Quotes from Ayn Rand
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: I.
- Ayn Rand
Nature is not to be conquered, man is.
- Ayn Rand
The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.
- Ayn Rand
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!
- Ayn Rand
The air is pure under the ground. There is no odor of men.
- Ayn Rand
It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
- Ayn Rand
I think that your sister is awful. I think it's disgusting-a woman acting like a grease-monkey and posing around like a big executive. It's so unfeminine. Who does she think she is, anyway?
- Ayn Rand
But it's a crime! It's a crime against the nation. Don't you know that?" "No." "It's against the law!" "Yes.
- Ayn Rand
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
- Ayn Rand
It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.
- Ayn Rand
Why yes, I can," said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. "The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
- Ayn Rand
Reason is the most naive of all superstitions.
- Ayn Rand