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“I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Nothing can justify injustice.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He, the man of violent energy and passionate ambition, the man of achievement, lighted by the flame of his success and flung into the midst of those pretentious ashes who called themselves an intellectual elite, the burned-out remnants of undigested culture, feeding on the afterglow of the minds of others, offering their denial of the mind as their only claim to distinction, and a craving to control the world as their only lust...”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There’s no way to make the irrational work.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“But don’t I have any freedom of speech?â€�
“In your own house. Not in mine.�
“Don’t I have a right to my own ideas?�
“At your own expense. Not at mine.�
“Don’t you tolerate any differences of opinion?�
“Not when I’m paying the bills.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I will not help you to pretend that I have a chance. I will not help you to preserve an appearance of righteousness where rights are not recognized. I will not help you to preserve an appearance of rationality by entering a debate in which a gun is the final argument. I will not help you to pretend that you are administering justice.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man’s love of existence to a circuit of torture, so that only the man who had nothing to offer would have nothing to fear, so that the virtues which made life possible and the values which gave it meaning became the agents of its destruction, so that one’s best became the tool of one’s agony, and man’s life on earth became impractical.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone’s will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt—as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look...the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The punishment she had wanted to inflict on him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“You’ve got to be kind...â€�
“I’m not.�
“You’ve got to have some pity.�
“I haven’t.�
“A good man knows how to forgive.�
“I don’t.�
“You wouldn’t want me to think that you’re selfish.�
“I am.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I am in full agreement with the facts of everything said about me in the newspapers—with the facts, but not with the evaluation.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?â€�
“Good God, no!�
“Only that kind of man spends his life running after women.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“We lived by that which we held to be good and punished that which we held to be evil. You live by that which you denounce as evil and punish that which you know to be good.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Her plain gray suit was like a thin coating of metal over a slender body against the spread of sun-flooded space and sky. Her posture had the lightness and unselfconscious precision of an arrogantly pure self-confidence. She was watching the work, her glance intent and purposeful, the glance of competence enjoying its own function. She looked as if this were her place, her moment and her world, she looked as if enjoyment were her natural state, her face was the living form of an active, living intelligence...”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The human shapes moving past him in the streets of the city were physical objects without any meaning.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Eddie, what do we care about people like him? We're driving an express, and they're riding on the roof, making a lot of noise about being leaders. Why should we care? We have enough power to carry them along â€� haven't we?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Now he was contemplating, impersonally and for the first time, the real heart of terror: being delivered to destruction with one's hands tied behind one's back.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged