„But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.“

—  Ayn Rand

„The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.“

—  Ayn Rand

„A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Zdroj: The Fountainhead

„Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Atlas Shrugged

Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged

„If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Atlas Shrugged

Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged

„Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.“

—  Ayn Rand

„I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Zdroj: The Fountainhead

„A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.“

—  Ayn Rand

„To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Zdroj: The Fountainhead

„Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.“

—  Ayn Rand

„Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

„I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Atlas Shrugged

Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged

„The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Varianta: The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
Zdroj: The Fountainhead

„Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Zdroj: The Fountainhead

„He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.“

—  Ayn Rand

„My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Anthem

Zdroj: Anthem

„The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Anthem

Varianta: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
Zdroj: Anthem

„Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha Atlas Shrugged

Zdroj: Atlas Shrugged

„To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?“

—  Ayn Rand, kniha The Fountainhead

Zdroj: The Fountainhead