"Anthem" Quotes
In a dystopian society, a man discovers the power of individualism and challenges the oppressive collective mentality.
fiction | 105 pages | Published in 1938
Quotes
I am. I think. I will.
We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.
The word 'We' is as 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 grey of it.
To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
I am. I think. I will. My hands... My spirit... My sky... My forest... This earth of mine.
I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength. We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
We are nothing. Mankind is all.
