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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 15

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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Love, Self, Admiration

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.

Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

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

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

Let Me

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

Future, Knowledge, Rely

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

Running, Ambition, Pro Life

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.27, Penguin

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Rope, Ends, Leashes

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.850, Penguin

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Order, Protect, Secure

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.

Want, Reverence, Feels

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, Penguin

Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.

Rights, Agreement, Individual Choice

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

Reason, Supremacy, Egoism

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.415, Penguin

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Men, Agency, Silence

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.85, Penguin

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Thanksgiving, Holiday, Meals

"The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy". Book by Book by Gregory Bergman, p. 194, 2004.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

Hurt, Anger, People

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.510, Penguin

But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

Hurt, Knowing, People

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.380, Penguin

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Sacrifice, Self, Novelists

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.804, Penguin

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Hope, Crazy, Inspiration

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.103, Penguin

I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.

Men, Justice, Peaceful

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Love, Life, Character

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

People, Evil, Political

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Dream, Happy Life, Greatness

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1850, Penguin

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Men, Want, Virtue

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.72, Hamilton Books

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Sacrifice, Men, Self

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

People, Virtue, Standards

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