World Quotes by Ayn Rand

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

— 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

“Dagny," he said, "whatever we are, it's we who move the world and it's we who will pull it through.”

— Ayn Rand

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

— Ayn Rand

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

— Ayn Rand

“whatever we are, it’s we who move the world and it’s we who’ll pull it through.”

— Ayn Rand

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

— Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

— Ayn Rand

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights…

— Ayn Rand

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're…

— Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and…

— Ayn Rand

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I…

— Ayn Rand

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values…

— Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity…

— Ayn Rand

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on…

— Ayn Rand

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong…

— Ayn Rand

The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's…

— 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

There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,…

— 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

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and…

— Ayn Rand

Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let…

— Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity…

— Ayn Rand

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no…

— 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

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I…

— Ayn Rand

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the…

— Ayn Rand

She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a…

— Ayn Rand

Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global…

— Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes…

— Ayn Rand

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

— Ayn Rand

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

— Ayn Rand

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…

— Ayn Rand

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I…

— Ayn Rand

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have…

— Ayn Rand

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit…

— Ayn Rand

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the…

— Ayn Rand

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you…

— Ayn Rand