Quotes from Ayn Rand
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?
- Ayn Rand
Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.
- Ayn Rand
a new biological species, the hit-and-run businessmen, who did not stay in any line of business longer than the span of one deal, who had no payrolls to meet, no overhead to carry, no real estate to own, no equipment to build, whose
- Ayn Rand
Integrity does not consist of loyalty to ones subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles
- Ayn Rand
Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.
- Ayn Rand
Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
- Ayn Rand
He felt, as passionately as he had ever felt it, that she was the most desirable woman on earth; but what came from it was only a desire to desire her, a wish to feel, not a feeling.
- Ayn Rand
that is the psychology of a murderer who's committed the perfect crime and then confesses because he can't bear the idea that nobody knows it's a perfect crime.
- Ayn Rand
It was a small, dim room and the air in it seemed heavy, as if it had not been disturbed for years.
- Ayn Rand
The men who now sat in front of his desk had been taught that the law of causality was a superstition and that one had to deal with the situation of the moment without considering its cause.
- Ayn Rand
Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.
- Ayn Rand
When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he had preached, he came to live in America.
- Ayn Rand