Quote 41
Civilization is the progress towards 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.
Ayn Rand.
Roark's Trial. "The Fountainhead."

Quote 42
There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.
Ayn Rand.
Roark's Trial. "The Fountainhead."

Quote 43
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves, the relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption. It is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality- the man who lives for others- is the slave. If physical slavery is repulsive; how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit.
Ayn Rand.
Roark's Trial. "The Fountainhead."

Quote 44
Anything may be betrayed, anything may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
Ayn Rand.
Roark's Trial. "The Fountainhead."

Quote 45
"He thought . . . that man's work should be a higher step, an improvement on nature, not a degradation. He did not want to despise men; he wanted to love and admire them. But he dreaded the sight of the first house, poolroom and movie poster he would encounter on his way . . . . He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought . . . . Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music . . . . Don't work for my happiness, my brothers -- show me yours -- show me that it is possible -- show me your achievement -- and the knowledge will give me courage for mine."
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 46
"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. Man has no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons, a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 47
"But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought . . . .
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 48
"Nothing is given to man on earth. Everything he needs has to be produced. And here man faces his basic alternative: he can survive in only one of two ways -- by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others . . . .
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 49
"I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 50
"I wished to come here to say that I am a man who does not exist for others . . . ."
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 51
"To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the 'I'."
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead (1943).

Quote 52
"Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that one falls in love -- with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul -- the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.
Ayn Rand. The Romantic Manifesto (1971).

Quote 53
"Project the look on a child's face when he grasps the answer to some problem he has been striving to understand. It is a radiant look of joy, of liberation, almost of triumph, which is unself-conscious, yet self-assertive, and its radiance seems to spread in two directions: outward, as an illumination of the world -- inward, as an earned pride. If you have seen this look, or experienced it, you know that if there is such a concept as the sacred -- meaning: the best, the highest possible to man -- this look is the sacred, the not-to-be-betrayed, the not-to-be-sacrificed for anything or anyone.
Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).

Quote 54
"This look is not confined to children. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by a means of a light-bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol: an idea is a light turned on in a man's soul.
Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).

Quote 55
"It is the steady, confident reflection of that light that you look for in the face of adults -- particularly of those to whom you entrust your most precious values. You look for it in the eyes of a surgeon performing an operation on the body of a loved one; you look for it in the face of a pilot at the controls of the plane in which you are flying; and, if you are consistent, you look for it in the person of the man or woman you marry.
Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).

Quote 56
"That light-bulb look is the flash of human intelligence in action: it is the outward manifestation of man's rational faculty; it is the signal and symbol of man's mind. And, to the extent of your humanity, it is involved in everything you seek, enjoy, value, or love."
Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).

Quote 57
"Some of you will never know who is John Galt. But those of you who have known a single moment of love for existence and of pride in being its worthy lover, a moment of looking at this earth and letting your glance be its sanction, have known the state of being a man, and I -- I am only the man who knew that that state is not to be betrayed. I am the man who knew what made it possible and who chose consistently to practice and to be what you had practiced and been in that one moment.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 58
"The choice is yours to make. That choice -- the dedication to one's highest potential -- is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four."
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 59
"What is the nature of the guilt that your teacher call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge -- he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil -- he became a moral being. He was sentenced to experience desire -- he acquired the capacity for sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy -- all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that the myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was -- that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love -- he was not man.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Quote 60
"Man's fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he's man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (1957).