Ayn Rand · Skopia

Quotes

4

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The Fountainhead · 1943

★ 3.7

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Atlas Shrugged · 1957

★ 3.7

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.

Atlas Shrugged · 1957

★ 2.9

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

The Fountainhead · 1943

★ 2.1

Books

2

The Fountainhead

1943★ 5.7

Atlas Shrugged

1957★ 5.5