Ayn Rand Individualism Quotes

#1. I cannot see why she lengthens her list nor thinks we are short of weapons with which to run her through.

Martin Luther

#2. Man is an end in himself.

Ayn Rand

#3. I'm leaning on an old guy trick here, claiming my wife is being a typical irrational woman right as she begins saying things that I don't want to hear.

Matthew Norman

#4. Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Ayn Rand

#5. I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

#6. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

Ayn Rand

#7. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Paul Ryan

#8. That moved me, and I didn't even give him crap about the fact that his tuxedo had tails. Who the hell wears tails anymore?

S.C. Stephens

#9. Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

Laurie Anderson

#11. I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Jim Capaldi

#12. The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Ayn Rand

#14. 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

#15. When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.

Ayn Rand

#16. I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Ayn Rand

#18. A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Ayn Rand

#19. If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

Ayn Rand

#20. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Jean Cocteau

#21. I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

Jermell Charlo

#22. When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

David Harsanyi

#23. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Phil Jackson

#24. Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Paul Ryan

#25. It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Ayn Rand

#26. Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach.

Ayn Rand