What are some of your favorite AR quotes?

[Backlighting]

Without quoting John Galt's speech or any of her other very long statements I submit these gems:

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master"

"No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as “the right to enslave.”

“every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise."

-J

[Brant Gaede]

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

______________

That's essentially the whole Ayn Rand enchilada, folks.

--Brant

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."

How's that one?

(btw - It's the villain, Ellsworth Toohey, who says it in The Fountainhead. )

Michael

[Francisco Ferrer]

"What are some of your favorite AR quotes?"

You mean before or after she was bowdlerized by David Harriman?

[DallasCowboys]

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand

[Backlighting]

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”

[Brant Gaede]

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."

Roark: "But I don't think of you.”

Ayn quoted Frank, there. Also: "Brother, you asked for it!" and "casting pearls and not even getting a pork chop in return."

--Brant

the very last may not be 100% accurate

[Backlighting]

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others"

[BaalChatzaf]

From Atlas Shrugged where Dagny tells Cherryl that she (Dagny) is the man of the family.