It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adver… - Ayn Rand

" "
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Ayn Rand

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (2 February 1905 – 6 March 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her bestselling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

Alternative Names: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum • Alice O'Connor

All quotes from Ayn Rand Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Ayn Rand:

George Bernard Shaw Leo Tolstoy Friedrich Nietzsche Aldous Huxley Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Additional quotes by Ayn Rand

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met — yours and mine — they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

"A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. - Ayn Rand

About Ayn Rand

Also Known As

Try QuoteGPT

Additional quotes by Ayn Rand

Try QuoteGPT