Atlas Shrugged (Primary source)
In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand explores Objectivism, a philosophy of rational self-interest. The story follows a dystopian United States where successful innovators, led by John Galt, go on strike to protest excessive government regulation and taxation.
“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
— Ayn Rand“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Every thing impossible, until we see a success.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt