Quotes about Ayn Rand

Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.

The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.

Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

No man can predict the time when others will choose to return to reason.

Thought - he told himself quietly - is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one's purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense.

No, you do not have to live; it is your basic act of choice; but if you choose to live, you must live as a man—by the work and the judgment of your mind.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name. It's one or the other. One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially.

Are you beginning to see who is John Galt? I am the man who has earned the thing you didn't fight for.... I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.

I love this work. I want to see it erected. I want to make it real, living, functioning, built. But every living thing is integrated. Do you know what that means? Whole, pure, complete, unbroken. Do you know what constitutes an integrating principle? A thought. The one thought, the single thought that created the thing and every part of it.

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.

When all of Europe put into practice the ideas which he had preached, he came to live in America.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt