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Ayn Rand quotes

Russian Writer February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982

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To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of extortion, to accept the gift of a man's good will and turn it into a tool for the giver's destruction. Ayn Rand
In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in while I am creating it; then, as a secondary consequence, to let others enjoy this world, if, and to the extent that, they can. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Nature is not to be conquered, man is."
Nature is not to be conquered, man is. Ayn Rand
If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them-just so they'll let you... Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure..."
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming? Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but..."
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. Ayn Rand
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all..."
Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men..."
The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather. Ayn Rand
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand quote: "We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be..."
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. Ayn Rand
If it were true, that old legend about appearing before a supreme judge and naming one’s record, I would offer, with all my pride, not any act I committed, but one thing I have never done on this earth: that I never sought an outside sanction. I would stand and say: I am Gail Wynand, the man who has committed every crime except the foremost one: that of ascribing futility to the wonderful act of existence and seeking justification beyond myself. This is my pride: that now, thinking of the... Ayn Rand
All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . Ayn Rand
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well. Ayn Rand
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. Ayn Rand

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