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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 14

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The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps

The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

Men, Creative, Mind

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.370, Penguin

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

School, Men, Russia

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Honesty, Integrity, Men

Ayn Rand (1997). “Journals of Ayn Rand”, E P Dutton

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

War, Men, Evil

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

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Mean, Men, Rights

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Leadership, Men, Atlas

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Mean, Men, Rights

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Suicide, Economics, Economy

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.239, Penguin

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Love, Inspirational, Life

Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

"We the Living". Book by Ayn Rand, 1936.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Faith, Witty, Religious

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.335, Penguin

There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

Hurt, Brother, Independent

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

Philosophy, Religion, Doctrine

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.76, Penguin

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Brother, Men, Soul

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

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Philosophy, Struggle, Long

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.620, Hamilton Books

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Discovery, Venture, Opinion

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

Mean, Sacrifice, Wish

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Strength, Power, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Self Esteem, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.33, Penguin

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Change, Life Changing, Choices

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Views, Culture, Renaissance

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

Men, Zombie, Doe

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.417, Penguin

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Character, Two, People

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

Mean, Self, Guilt

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

Men, Independence, Gauges

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.75, Penguin

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