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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 11

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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Philosophy, Eye, Cutting

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.21, Penguin

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

Government, Liberty, Poison

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Technology, Risk, Environmental

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.152, Penguin

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Frustration, People, Trying

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Progress Of Society, Civilization, Political

The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Addresses, Fool

Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand (1999). “My Years with Ayn Rand”, Jossey-Bass

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Independence, Genius

Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.461, Penguin

...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Country, War, Goal

And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.

Men, Light, Numbers

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Inspirational, Success, Positive Thinking

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1004, Penguin

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Work, Importance, Wells

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Lying, White, Destruction

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Life, Motivation, Soul

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Brave, Coward, Enough

So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Money, Men, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.70, Penguin

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Enemy, Religion, Mankind

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

Men, Order, Suffering Of Others

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Philosophy, Impossible, Longing

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Responsibility, Escaping, Drunk

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.61, Penguin

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

Mean, Men, Law

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.196, Penguin

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

Men, Emotional, Productive Work

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Greed, Favoritism, Corruption

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.240, Penguin

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Men, Liberty, Persuasion

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.38, Penguin

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Ideas, Crime, Justification

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.129, Penguin

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