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Atlas Shrugged quotes

Ayn Rand

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“the measure of the hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There's no way to rule innocent men.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Within the extent of your knowledge, . . . you are right.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“guilt is a rope that wears thin” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another— their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Married people don't look as if they have a bedroom on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“What greater wealth is there than to own your Me and to spend it on growing?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her alive, because it was worth feeling.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“It is not advisable . . . to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“When I die, I hope to go to heaven—whatever the hell that is— and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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