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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 13

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... reason accepts no commandments.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Fear, Atheism, Rage

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

You love only those who deserve it.

Deserve

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.

Men, Earth Day, Survival

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.226, Penguin

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Voice, Culture, Made

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.175, Penguin

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Men, Desire, Purity

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.80, Penguin

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Writing, Focus, Mind

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Courage, Integrity, Dedication

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.179, Penguin

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Business, Work, Way

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

World, Enjoy, Virtuous

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.228, Hamilton Books

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

Government, Special, Liberty

"The Voice of Reason" by Ayn Rand, 1989.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

Moral, Judgment, Failing

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.318, Penguin

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Moving, Long Ago, Years

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.133, Penguin

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Doe, Needs, Atlas

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.111, Hamilton Books

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Men, Intellectual, Culture

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.130, Penguin

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Honesty, Integrity, Self Esteem

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

Government, Evil, Abuse

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.45, Penguin

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Motherhood, Gun, Reality

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Mean, Persons, Unfeeling

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.842, Penguin

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Inspirational, Wish

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Mean, Enemy, Religion

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.116, Penguin

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

Men, Rights, Erode

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

Rights, Dichotomy, Humans

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Men, Average, Individuality

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, Penguin

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.

Government, Liberty, Use

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.202, Penguin

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Law, Purpose, Return

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.443, Hamilton Books

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