Ayn Rand Quotes About Brothers

• I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

• We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Equality, Humanity

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.290, Penguin

• To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men

  "Study Guide: Anthem".

• At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Kings, Men

  Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.54, Xist Publishing

• the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Brother, War

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.674, Penguin

• Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Fire

• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

• Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. 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

  Happiness, Courage, Brother

  "The Fountainhead".

• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

• I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Honor

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

• These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Freedom, Book

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.108, BookCaps Study Guides

• Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Unknown Worlds, Hands

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.91, BookCaps Study Guides

• But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.49, Xist Publishing

• We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

  Ayn Rand

  Teacher, Brother, Home

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.326, Penguin

• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

• Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Blessed, Humble

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.40, Xist Publishing

• Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Reason Why

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