Famous Ayn Rand Quotes

  • The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. – Ayn Rand

    The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.– Ayn Rand

  • Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521 – Ayn Rand

    Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521– Ayn Rand

  • I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand

    I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.– Ayn Rand

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

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

  • The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness. – Ayn Rand

    The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.– Ayn Rand

  • Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. – Ayn Rand

    Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.– Ayn Rand

  • …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand

    …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.– Ayn Rand

  • Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious – Ayn Rand

    Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious– Ayn Rand

  • Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont – Ayn Rand

    Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont– Ayn Rand

  • Great men can’t be ruled… The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. – Ayn Rand

    Great men can’t be ruled… The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.– Ayn Rand