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Anything Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
- About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
- It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's…
- You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're…
- We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base:…
- Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found…
- We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens…
- That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who…
- The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
- I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
- Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do…
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
- Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone…
- To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only…
- I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is…
- Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your…
- Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness
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