Quotes from Ayn Rand
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
— Ayn Rand
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
— Ayn Rand
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
— Ayn Rand
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
— Ayn Rand
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
— Ayn Rand
To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.
— Ayn Rand
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
— Ayn Rand
The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.
— 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 him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
— Ayn Rand
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
— Ayn Rand
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
— Ayn Rand