Quotes by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive wor — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who — 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 t — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the ac — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt? — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let i — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I think, therefore I'll think. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I take no pride in 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
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be ear — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for h — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged