--- title: "14 Battle Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "14 Battle quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Battle sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/ayn-rand-59_battle_she-had-won-the-battle-against-her-memor_2958771.jpg" --- > [She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-had-won-the-battle-against-her-memories-but-one-form-of-torture/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/ayn-rand-59_battle_she-had-won-the-battle-against-her-memor_2958771.jpg) > [To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/to-preserve-one-s-mind-intact-through-a-modern-college-education-is-a/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42c/ayn-rand-59_battle_to-preserve-one-s-mind-intact-through-a_807537.jpg) > [“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-political-battle-is-merely-a-skirmish-fought-with-muskets-a/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/ayn-rand-59_battle_a-political-battle-is-merely-a-skirmish_157762.jpg) > [And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/and-here-over-the-portals-of-my-fort-i-shall-cut-in-the-stone-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ab/ayn-rand-59_banner_and-here-over-the-portals-of-my-fort-i-s_2961501.jpg) > [Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fight-for-the-value-of-your-person-fight-for-the-virtue-of-your-pride/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/ayn-rand-59_achievement_fight-for-the-value-of-your-person-fight_203511.jpg) > [If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-you-want-to-know-the-one-reason-that-s-taking-me-back-i-ll-tell-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e00/ayn-rand-59_abandon_if-you-want-to-know-the-one-reason-that_2471922.jpg) > [If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-it-were-true-that-men-could-achieve-their-good-by-means-of-turning-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/ayn-rand-59_achieve_if-it-were-true-that-men-could-achieve-t_1334563.jpg) > [Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/ideas-cannot-be-fought-except-by-means-of-better-ideas-the-battle/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/ayn-rand-59_alternatives_ideas-cannot-be-fought-except-by-means-o_2422946.jpg) > [Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/do-not-let-your-fire-go-out-do-not-let-the-hero-in-your-soul-perish/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80f/ayn-rand-59_addict_do-not-let-your-fire-go-out-do-not-let-t_952700.jpg) > [For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/for-centuries-the-battle-of-morality-was-fought-between-those-who/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/ayn-rand-59_battle_for-centuries-the-battle-of-morality-was_1902972.jpg) > [“In an intellectual battle, you do not need to convert everyone. History is made by minorities - or, more precisely, history is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/in-an-intellectual-battle-you-do-not-need-to-convert-everyone-history/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f3/ayn-rand-59_battle_in-an-intellectual-battle-you-do-not-nee_175427.jpg) > [Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/of-all-the-statist-violations-of-individual-rights-in-a-mixed-economy/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/ayn-rand-59_accepted_of-all-the-statist-violations-of-individ_1751766.jpg) > [If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-you-want-to-know-the-one-reason-that-s-taking-me-back-i-ll-tell/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/ayn-rand-59_abandon_if-you-want-to-know-the-one-reason-that_974708.jpg) > [Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/theirs-is-the-banner-in-my-hand-and-i-wish-i-had-the-power-to-tell/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df4/ayn-rand-59_alive_theirs-is-the-banner-in-my-hand-and-i-wi_1011458.jpg) ## Other authors on Battle - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 61 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/sun-tzu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-bonaparte-70192.jpg) Napoleon Bonaparte 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/napoleon-bonaparte/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-s-patton-37958.jpg) George S. Patton 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/george-s-patton/) - [Wendy Owens 21 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/wendy-owens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-janet-morris-47219.jpg) Janet Morris 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/janet-morris/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dwight-d-eisenhower-30965.jpg) Dwight D. Eisenhower 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/dwight-d-eisenhower/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/mahatma-gandhi/) ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battle/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "14 Battle Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "She had won the battle against her memories. 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