
Top 18 Anthem Ayn Rand Quotes
#1. In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.
Jeff Britting
#3. There are so many versions of Batman that I love so much from different artists that I had to almost stop trying to draw those versions and get past that and just draw the Jeff Lemire version of Batman eventually.
Jeff Lemire
#4. It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of strength.
Ayn Rand
#5. We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#6. This god, this one word: I.
Ayn Rand
#7. Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.
Ayn Rand
#8. We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquhar
#9. God's star promised peace to the whole world ... too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.
Billy Graham
#10. I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'
Ayn Rand
#11. That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.
Gin Wigmore
#12. Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
#13. Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."
Jeff Britting
#14. What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
Osho
#15. 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
#16. If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
Rip Torn
#17. I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley.
Sara Shepard
#18. I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.
Mark McGrath
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