“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
— Ayn Rand“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
— Ayn Rand“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
— Ayn Rand“I am, therefore I'll think.”
— Ayn Rand“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
— Ayn Rand“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”
— Ayn Rand“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”
— Ayn Rand“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
— Ayn Rand“You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.”
— Ayn Rand“Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.”
— Ayn Rand“A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.”
— Ayn Rand“The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.”
— Ayn Rand“I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.”
— Ayn Rand“Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.”
— Ayn Rand“Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.”
— Ayn Rand“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”
— Ayn Rand“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
— Ayn Rand