Ayn Rand Quotes About Free Will

• It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

  Ayn Rand

  Achievement, Lucky, Rotten

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.551, Penguin

• Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Choices, Religion

• Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

• That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Thinking, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.192, Penguin

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