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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 12

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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

Men, Order, Needs

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

Majority Rule, Liberty, Principles

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Funny, Inspiring, Money

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Beautiful, Bad Ass, Ugly

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.234, Hamilton Books

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Freedom, Political, Mind

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Law, Purpose, Committed

Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Funny, Crazy, Silly

"The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

Men, Squad, Pressure

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.113, Penguin

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

Happiness, Real, Escaping

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Control Of Your Life, Order, Purpose

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Money, Stupid, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

Military, Sacrifice, Men

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.216, Penguin

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Headlines, Entity, Clear

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.191, Penguin

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Equality, Men, Law

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness, Being Happy, Time

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Travel, Women, Real

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Integrity, Men, Two

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

Mean, Validation, Ideas

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

Kindness, Mean, Sacrifice

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.128, Penguin

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

Philosophy, Reality, Views

"The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Philosophy, Facts, Recognition

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

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Men, Way, Objectivism

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.20, Penguin

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Religion, Defense, Lines

"The Romantic Manifesto" by Ayn Rand, (Ch. 3), 1969.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Art, Men, Fire

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

Men, Temples, Spirit

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

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