"My happiness is not the ways to whatever terminate. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"The give-and-take "We" is equally lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the gray of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, past which the weak steal the might of the strong, past which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into information technology? What is my wisdom, if even the fools tin dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
Simply I am washed with this creed of corruption.
I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
And now I meet the face of god, and I raise this god over the world, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who volition grant them joy and peace and pride.
This god, this one word:
"I."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"I stand up here on the meridian of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my artillery. This, my trunk and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the pregnant of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to reach. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a retainer of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"I am. I think. I volition."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"At first, homo was enslaved by the gods. Just he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he bankrupt their chains. He was enslaved by his nascence, by his kin, by his race. Just he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor rex nor other men can take abroad from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of homo, and at that place is no correct on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"I know not if this globe on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate information technology. My happiness is not the means to any end. Information technology is the terminate. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who volition seek them (pg. 52)."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I practise not grant my dearest without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim information technology. I honor men with my dear. Just honor is a thing to exist earned."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of homo nor the sense of truth within him."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fright without proper noun, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"For the coming of that 24-hour interval shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honour."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"To be free, a human must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and null else."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"The fortune my spirit is non to exist blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I baby-sit my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"Many words accept been granted me, and some are wise, and some are fake, only simply three are holy: "I will information technology!"
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"These are the things earlier me. And equally I stand here at the door of celebrity, I look behind me for the terminal time. I await upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. Information technology was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of homo's freedom. Just what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man'southward freedom away from him, save other men. To exist free, a man must be costless of his brothers. That is freedom. This and goose egg else."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is non the ways to any end. Information technology is the end. It is its own goal. It is its ain purpose...
I am a human being. this miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to baby-sit, and mine to employ, and mine to kneel before!
I practise not surrender my treasures, nor practice I share them. The fortune of my spirit is non to be diddled into coins of contumely and flung to the winds equally alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my volition, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
I owe zero to my brothers, nor practise I gather debts from them. I inquire none to alive for me, nor exercise I live for any others. I covet no human'south soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, only such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my beloved, my brothers must do more than to have been built-in. I do not thousand my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-past who may wish to merits information technology. I accolade men with my love. But honour is a thing to be earned.
I shall choose my friends among men, simply neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as delight me, and them I shall honey and respect, just neither control nor obey. And we shall join our easily when we wish, or walk alone when we so want. For in the temple of his spirit, each man is solitary. Let each man keep his temple untouched and undefiled. Then let him bring together easily with others if he wishes, but only across his holy threshold."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"The sky is like a blackness sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"And questions give us no rest. Nosotros know not why our expletive makes usa seek nosotros know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that at that place are cracking things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we endeavor, and that nosotros must know them. Nosotros inquire, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. Nosotros must know that we may know."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants dazzler to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the earth. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the simply searchlight that can notice the truth. It is my volition which chooses, and the selection of my will is the simply edict I must respect."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"Today we take discovered the word that could not exist said. "I"
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"I guard my treasures: my idea, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"It is a sin to write this."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cutting in the stone the word which is to be my buoy and my banner. The discussion which will not die should we all perish in boxing. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the eye of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO"
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"We take followed you," they said, "and nosotros shall follow y'all wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face information technology also. If it exist death, we shall die with you. Y'all are damned, and nosotros wish to share your damnation."
They looked upon usa, and their vox was low, but at that place was bitterness and triumph in their vocalization:
"Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor burn down. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and apprehensive. Your head is loftier, but our brothers cringe. You walk, merely our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you lot, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do equally yous please with u.s.a., but do not send us away from yous."
Then they knelt, and bowed their aureate head before us.
Nosotros had never thought of that which we did. Nosotros bent to enhance the Golden One to their feet, merely when we touched them, information technology was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their body and nosotros pressed our lips to theirs. The Gilt I breathed once, and their jiff was a moan, and so their arms closed around us.
We stood together for a long fourth dimension. And nosotros were frightened that we had lived for 20-one years and had never known what joy is possible to men."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did non see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is difficult for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give information technology up and non know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"And that nighttime nosotros knew that to hold the trunk of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"But what is liberty? Freedom from what? There is nothing to have a man'southward freedom away from him, salvage other men. To be free, a human must be complimentary of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else."
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
"And human volition go along. Homo, not men."
― Ayn Rand, Canticle
"I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not impale the spirit of human being nor the sense of truth within him.
~Equality seven-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98"
― Ayn Rand, Anthem
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