1,908 Quotes by Ayn Rand

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won—that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself.

She heard the words; she understood the meaning; she was unable to make it real—to grant the respect of anger, concern, opposition to a nightmare piece of insanity that rested on nothing but people’s willingness to pretend to believe that it was sane.

To be able to say "I love you", one has to be able to say "I

No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually?

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach, at the end, the vision with which one started.