Ayn Rand Quotes About Atheism

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream, Happy Life, Greatness

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1850, Penguin

• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Responsibility, Men

• Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "We the Living". Book by Ayn Rand, 1936.

• They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect.

  Ayn Rand

  Fate, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

• Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.

  Ayn Rand

  Self, Practice, Wish

• Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

  Ayn Rand

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.893, Hamilton Books

• I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Atheist, Mean, Fighting

• ... reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

• If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think.
  But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed.
  The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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