Hank-rearden Quotes

Thought—he told himself quietly—is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Though...

...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of...

If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-...

Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked man’s...

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to f...

Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes...

There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in ...

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...

You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I ...

Nothing can justify injustice.

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

...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—...

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held th...

...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being a...

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipate...

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons...

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?”...

Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the...

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of...

She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying i...

The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single st...

It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at ...

We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those...