Want Quotes by Ayn Rand

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

— Ayn Rand

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

— Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

— Ayn Rand

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

— Ayn Rand

If you want to feel good, be rational.

— Ayn Rand

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

— Ayn Rand

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

— Ayn Rand

“I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.”

— Ayn Rand

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,

— Ayn Rand

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

— Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

— Ayn Rand

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

— Ayn Rand

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.…

— Ayn Rand

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up,…

— Ayn Rand

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect…

— Ayn Rand

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for…

— Ayn Rand

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're…

— Ayn Rand

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want…

— Ayn Rand

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast,…

— Ayn Rand

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He…

— Ayn Rand

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort…

— Ayn Rand

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…

— Ayn Rand

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…

— Ayn Rand

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…

— Ayn Rand

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,…

— Ayn Rand

Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception…

— Ayn Rand

“If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything…

— Ayn Rand

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

— Ayn Rand

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

— Ayn Rand

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to…

— Ayn Rand

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest…

— Ayn Rand

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

— Ayn Rand

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want…

— Ayn Rand

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only…

— Ayn Rand

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has…

— Ayn Rand

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you…

— Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in…

— Ayn Rand