Atlas Shrugs Quotes & Sayings

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument. — Reinhold Niebuhr

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything. — Victor Hugo

There was a huge moon over the western mountains, and it made the city seem even more mysterious and old, and the great black castle on the ridge stood out in front of the moon. And if there are ghosts anyplace in the world, they must be here, and if there is a ghost of Queen Tamara, she must have been walking the ridge in the moonlight that night. — John Steinbeck

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors. — George A. Romero

If we give the supply of growth, self-improvement, self-education, into our lives, life would favour us — Sunday Adelaja

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust. — Russell Kirk