Ayn Rand Quotes

Ayn Rand Quote of the day

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Charity must be voluntary.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

It was a satisfying bravery

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men

Gosh, even Roark noticed Dominique.

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably

A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets