Earth Quotes by Ayn Rand

35 Earth quotes by Ayn Rand

Rand’s writings often champion the power of the individual, and here she extends that focus to the world we occupy. Thirty‑five statements illustrate how personal responsibility and rational self‑interest intersect with our planetary home.

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“the only sin on earth was to do things badly.”

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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

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Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

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“We do not know why we think of them. We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel of…

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The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.…

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should…

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Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto…

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Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the…

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Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his…

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an…

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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight…

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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East…

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And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever.…

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense…

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And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon…

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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which…

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Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their…

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What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by…

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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by…

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They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they…

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Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by…

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Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is…

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Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed…

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I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth…

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For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging…

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority;…

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Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this…

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I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a…

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The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside…

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The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never…

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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought…

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At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he…

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For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed…

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If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

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“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

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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…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

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