Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Quotes

• “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the ...”
• “She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went ...”
• “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 ...”
• “People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load o...”
• “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...”
• “The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not ...”
• “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the ac...”
• “Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who r...”
• “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...”
• “I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”
• “Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
• “You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.”
• “Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
• “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...”
• “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
• “We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”
• “Who is John Galt?”