Author of quotes: Ayn Rand. Page 3

She wondered sometimes why the words: But he's going to die - meant so little to them, and the words: But it is not a civil servant - meant so little to her, and why it's so hard to explain.

The trouble with our times is that we don't have anything spiritual. People have lost even a simple faith.

We have no future. We were wallowing in the gratification of the flesh. And the fate of Russia has always depended on her spirit, and now in Russia there is neither God nor soul.

...a revolution in white gloves will not do.

If necessary, you can learn anything.

...I have something that I can't sell and can't lose it, and nationalize it. I have a future. Living future. My children.

I found you because I thought you could help me in the mouth. Now I'm afraid you're gonna be the one who will save me from this. But I don't know if I'll be thankful to you.

- I loathe your ideals.
Why?
Mainly for one reason - the main and eternal, no matter how much your party promises to accomplish, no matter what Paradise it plans to give to mankind. Whatever your other claims, there is one thing which you cannot avoid, one that turns your Paradise into the most unspeakable hell: your claim that man must live for the state.
- For what else should he live?
- You don't know? - her voice trembled suddenly in a passionate plea, which she was unable to hide. Do you know that the best of us is something to which no one outside hand should dare touch? Something sacred because, and only because you can say, "This is mine". You don't know that people live only for themselves, at least the best of them, those who deserve it? You don't know that we have something that should not touch any state, no team, no millions?
"No," he replied.
- Comrade Taganov, how much you still have to learn!

Never look back. The past is dead. But there's always the future. There is always a future.

The crowd is there and gives the feel its existence. It is a well known and disgusting fact. In our time, the crowd gave him experience with a particular abomination.

The new Soviet passport was more than a passport - it was the resolution to life. It was called "Labor book" as work and life as synonyms.

- You know what you're doing, Argunova? she asked, eyes flashing.
- Eat porridge, ' replied Kira - want to sit with us.
- Do you know what made this girl?
- Don't have a clue.
- No? Then why are you for it?
- You're wrong. I'm not for it, I am against twenty-eight others.
- So do you think it wise to go against the majority?
I think when the question is controversial and there is doubt as to the correctness of any of the parties, correct to side with the weakest of opponents...

This is the only profession [engineer] that does not need to learn to lie. Steel is steel. The greater part of science is someone else's thoughts, someone's desire and the lies of many people.