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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 10

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It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

Mean, Important, Encounters

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.673, Penguin

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.

Brother, Kings, Men

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

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Evil, Giving, World

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Men, Rights, Individualism

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.406, Penguin

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

Sacrifice, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Pain, Fighting, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Happiness, Power, Overcoming Addiction

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.610, Hamilton Books

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Mean, Men, Honest

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Rights, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Recognition

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Witty, Guilt, Accepting

"Atlas Shrugged".

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had 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 we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

Religious, Animal, Men

I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Country, Patriotic, Roots

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Liberty, Libertarian, Impossible

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.66, Penguin

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

Sacrifice, Thinking, Reality

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1454, Penguin

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

Men, Hands, Please Me

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

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.

Knowledge, Blessing, Thinking

"Atlas Shrugged". Book by Ayn Rand, Part Two: Either-Or, Chapter One: The Man who Belonged On Earth, p. 346, 1957.

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

Independence, Mind, Needs

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.63, Penguin

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Country, Liberty, Degrees

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.39, Penguin

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

Character, Winning, Thug

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Motivation, Greed, Wealth

Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Life Is, This Life, Knows

Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

Jobs, Mistake, Thinking

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Limits, Expanding, Thrive

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Work, Mean, Reality

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

Vision, Youth, Ends

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.689, Penguin

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