Quotes from Ayn Rand
For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
- Ayn Rand
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
- Ayn Rand
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
- Ayn Rand
There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours
- Ayn Rand
If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
- Ayn Rand
We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.
- Ayn Rand
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
- Ayn Rand
I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.
- Ayn Rand
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
- Ayn Rand
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
- Ayn Rand
God forgives those who invent what they need.
- Ayn Rand
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
- Ayn Rand