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title: "81 Time Quotes By Ayn Rand"
description: "Time quotes by Ayn Rand highlight principles, wonder, and a future vision of capitalism."
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> [Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/anyone-who-fights-for-the-future-lives-in-it-today/)

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> [Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/identify-the-dominant-philosophy-of-a-society-and-you-can-predict-its/)

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> [“At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/at-a-time-like-this-we-can-t-afford-the-luxury-of-thinking/)

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> [That time and those people are upon you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/that-time-and-those-people-are-upon-you/)

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> [Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/upper-classes-are-a-nation-s-past-the-middle-class-is-its-future/)

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> [“And suddenly, for the first time this day, we remembered that we are the damned. We remembered it, and we laughed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/and-suddenly-for-the-first-time-this-day-we-remembered-that-we-are/)

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> [For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/for-the-first-time-since-her-return-she-felt-pain-a-violent-pain-but/)

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> [Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/don-t-rely-on-our-knowledge-of-what-s-best-for-your-future-we-do-know/)

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> [“The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-trees-had-protected-it-from-time-and-weather-and-from-men-who/)

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> [“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/keating-stood-still-because-he-understood-for-the-first-time-what-it/)

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> [Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-form-of-happiness-is-private-our-greatest-moments-are-personal-2/)

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> [“The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-laws-say-that-none-among-men-may-be-alone-ever-and-at-any-time/)

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> [“Held motionless by wonder, she stood looking at him, taking this moment, not in the name of the present, but as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/held-motionless-by-wonder-she-stood-looking-at-him-taking-this-moment/)

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> [“If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-joy-is-the-aim-and-the-core-of-existence-she-thought-and-if-that/)

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> [Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/don-t-think-of-them-now-never-think-of-pain-or-danger-or-enemies-a/)

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> [Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/do-not-keep-silent-when-your-own-ideas-and-values-are-being-attacked/)

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> [“In your worst and darkest moments remember that you have seen another kind of world. Remember that you can reach it whenever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/in-your-worst-and-darkest-moments-remember-that-you-have-seen-another/)

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> [“The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-course-led-them-to-the-moment-when-in-answer-to-the-highest-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/)

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> [“It's only a matter of getting through the next few moments, she thought: take care of the next few moments, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-s-only-a-matter-of-getting-through-the-next-few-moments-she/)

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> [“Nobody can tell what the course of a country’s future may be. It is not a matter of calculable trends, but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/nobody-can-tell-what-the-course-of-a-country-s-future-may-be-it-is/)

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> [“Listen, kid,” the sob sister said to her, when she stood in her room for the last time, the lace of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/listen-kid-the-sob-sister-said-to-her-when-she-stood-in-her-room-for/)

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> [“Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/let-anyone-who-believes-that-a-high-standard-of-living-is-the/)

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> [“He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/he-too-stood-looking-at-her-for-a-moment-and-it-seemed-to-her-that-it/)

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> [These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/these-are-the-things-before-me-and-as-i-stand-here-at-the-door-of/)

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> [My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/my-greatest-personal-mistake-is-ever-to-allow-a-word-or-moment-that/)

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> [“He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/he-waved-irritably-at-a-waiter-there-was-a-small-bar-in-a-dark-corner/)

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> [“Here’s another way. This is most important. Don't allow men to be happy. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/here-s-another-way-this-is-most-important-don-t-allow-men-to-be-happy/)

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> [“Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that ‘the good’ was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/who-is-the-public-what-does-it-hold-as-its-good-there-was-a-time-when/)

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> [“Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/haven-t-i-he-thought-haven-t-i-thought-of-it-since-the-first-time-i/)

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> [“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-form-of-happiness-is-private-our-greatest-moments-are-personal/)

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> [“The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-people-had-come-to-witness-a-sensational-case-to-see-celebrities/)

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> [“The world of the future. The world I want. A world of obedience and of unity. A world where the thought of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-world-of-the-future-the-world-i-want-a-world-of-obedience-and-of/)

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> [“Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/then-she-understood-that-what-she-needed-was-the-motion-to-a-purpose/)

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> [“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/to-cheat-your-way-into-a-job-bigger-than-your-mind-can-handle-is-to/)

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> [“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-want-you-hank-i-m-much-more-of-an-animal-than-you-think-i-wanted/)

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> [A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-moment-or-an-eternity-did-it-matter-life-undefeated-existed-and/)

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> [“In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/in-times-like-these-when-their-fat-little-comforts-are-threatened-you/)

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> [“Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, "Don't ever get angry at a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/moments-later-when-she-saw-the-look-of-control-returning-to-his-face/)

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> [She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-thought-at-this-moment-the-glass-stem-between-his-fingers-feels/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/)

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> [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/)

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                        "text": "“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live - that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road - that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up - that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.”",
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                        "text": "“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.”",
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