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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 17

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I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Life, Time, Effectiveness

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.551, Hamilton Books

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

Power, Men, Escaping

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

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Men, Ethnicity, Together

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.126, Penguin

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

Self Esteem, Thinking, Reliance

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.446, Penguin

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Thinking, Noble, Coins

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

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

Wisdom, Sex, Philosophy

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.460, Penguin

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Body

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Heart, Hands, Achievement

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."

Children, War, Feet

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.95, Penguin

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

Love, Dream, Reality

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.159, Penguin

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Men, Survival, Connections

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.17, Penguin

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

Men, Emotional, Erosion

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Luck, Today, Talent

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Nature, Doe, Demand

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Men, Together, Taught

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

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

Men, Anthem

"Anthem". Book by Ayn Rand, 1938.

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Integrity, Home, House

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.131, Penguin

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Zero, Suffering, Weakness

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

Would Be, Taxation, Payment

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.493, Penguin

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

Government, Use, Monopoly

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.204, Penguin

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Inspirational, Life, Rights

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

Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.

Ambition, Men, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.21, Penguin

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

Mean, Animal, Men

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

Fear, Responsibility, Men

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Gun, Men, Political

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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