Anthem By Ayn Rand Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement.

Timothy McVeigh

#4. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.

Henri Nouwen

#5. Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men!
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Ayn Rand

#6. Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Gore Vidal

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

Josh McDowell

#10. You can't cheat the public for long.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#11. All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Mark Twain

#12. Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

Ayn Rand

#13. This god, this one word: I.

Ayn Rand

#14. When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

Terry Pratchett

#15. 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