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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 23

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To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Brother, Men

"Study Guide: Anthem".

One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)

Mean, Self, Study

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Pride, Want, Hopeless

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.357, Penguin

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

Mean, Reality, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Giving, Achievement, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.399, Penguin

I am a man who does not exist for others.

Men, Doe, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

Successful, Men, Law

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Philosophy, Goal, Joy

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.711, Hamilton Books

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Life Changing, Passion, Mean

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Money, People, Trying

"Atlas Shrugged".

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Work, Men, Self

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

One Day, Liberty, Politics

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

Life, Courage, Betrayal

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

Sacrifice, Morality, Creeds

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.93, Penguin

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

People, Half, Way

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

Brother, Men, Fire

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Nails, Coffins, Economics

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.281, Penguin

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

Mean, Ideas, People

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.104, Penguin

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.

Love You, Sacrifice, Air

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.358, Penguin

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Thinking, Light, Important

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1110, Penguin

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

Years, Games, Political

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Government, Criminals, Cracks

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

Character, Thug, Men

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.46, Penguin

It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

Beautiful, Mean, Differences

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

Dark, Order, Yesterday

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