Atlas Shrugged Quotes

There’s no such thing as a lousy job – only lousy men who don’t care to do it.

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

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt – and that is what you have been doing all your life.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The measure of the hell you’re able to endure is the measure of your love.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness – not pain or mindless self-indulgence – is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money?

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.