Quotes about Ayn Rand

I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. | ~~Ayn Rand "Philosophy: Who Needs It, 10

men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy—so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state —indifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.