"Atlas Shrugged" Quotes

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The question isn't whether I can, but whether I want to.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Thought is a man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed.