--- title: "18 Given Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "18 Given quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Given sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ayn-rand-59_collecting_it-stands-to-reason-that-if-sacrifices-a_2835867.jpg" --- > [It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-stands-to-reason-that-if-sacrifices-are-being-given-somebody-is/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ayn-rand-59_collecting_it-stands-to-reason-that-if-sacrifices-a_2835867.jpg) > [Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/nobody-has-ever-given-a-reason-why-men-should-be-their-brother-s/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbe/ayn-rand-59_brother_nobody-has-ever-given-a-reason-why-men-s_62846.jpg) > [i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-cannot-be-called-upon-to-know-a-negative-or-to-prove-a-negative-if/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/620/ayn-rand-59_evidence_i-cannot-be-called-upon-to-know-a-negati_2397404.jpg) > [Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/contrary-to-the-vulgar-belief-that-men-are-motivated-primarily-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/ayn-rand-59_belief_contrary-to-the-vulgar-belief-that-men-a_1636543.jpg) > [It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-is-the-metaphysically-given-that-must-be-accepted-it-cannot-be/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_it-is-the-metaphysically-given-that-must_1520146.jpg) > [“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/one-of-the-methods-used-by-statists-to-destroy-capitalism-consists-in/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_one-of-the-methods-used-by-statists-to-d_506358.jpg) > [The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-man-of-authentic-self-confidence-is-the-man-who-relies-on-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08a/ayn-rand-59_absolutism_the-man-of-authentic-self-confidence-is_514940.jpg) > [Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/love-friendship-respect-admiration-are-the-emotional-response-of-one/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30c/ayn-rand-59_admiration_love-friendship-respect-admiration-are-t_1008857.jpg) > [It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-is-fairly-easy-to-grasp-abstract-moral-principles-it-can-be-very/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b96/ayn-rand-59_abstract_it-is-fairly-easy-to-grasp-abstract-mora_219473.jpg) > [The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-question-of-whether-one-alleges-the-superiority-or-inferiority-of/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32d/ayn-rand-59_given_the-question-of-whether-one-alleges-the_2078411.jpg) > [The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-lust-that-drives-others-to-enslave-an-empire-had-become-in-her/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/ayn-rand-59_artist_the-lust-that-drives-others-to-enslave-a_2201883.jpg) > [I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-love-you-dominique-as-selfishly-as-the-fact-that-i-exist-as/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b33/ayn-rand-59_air_i-love-you-dominique-as-selfishly-as-the_1719782.jpg) > [You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/you-re-not-sorry-you-could-ve-been-here-if-you-made-the-effort-but/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e64/ayn-rand-59_bills_you-re-not-sorry-you-could-ve-been-here_2741762.jpg) > [Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/man-s-mind-is-his-basic-tool-of-survival-life-is-given-to-him-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d29/ayn-rand-59_achieve_man-s-mind-is-his-basic-tool-of-survival_2075136.jpg) > [God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/god-help-us-ma-am-do-you-see-what-we-saw-we-saw-that-we-d-been-given/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fce/ayn-rand-59_bigger_god-help-us-ma-am-do-you-see-what-we-saw_682564.jpg) > [Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/did-it-ever-occur-to-you-that-there-is-no-conflict-of-interests-among-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/ayn-rand-59_absolutes_did-it-ever-occur-to-you-that-there-is-n_1748457.jpg) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/738/ayn-rand-59_action_every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-g_27132.jpg) > [I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-started-my-life-with-a-single-absolute-that-the-world-was-mine-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f2/ayn-rand-59_absolute_i-started-my-life-with-a-single-absolute_2952955.jpg) ## Other authors on Given ## 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/given/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "18 Given Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 18, 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