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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 29

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I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Giving, Novelists, Philosopher

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Collectives

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.489, Penguin

It is a sin to write this.

Writing, Sin

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.5, Xist Publishing

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

Sacrifice, Favors, Surrender

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.113, Penguin

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

Mean, Rights, Doctrine

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.395, Penguin

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

Reality, Men, Clothes

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2236, Penguin

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Helping Others, Ifs And, People

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

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

Responsibility, Thinking, Live Your Life

Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Self Esteem, Independent, Men

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Animal, Unique, Men

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.12, Penguin

To achieve, you need thought

Wisdom, Philosophy, Needs

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

Dream, Sleep, Sacrifice

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

Believe, Animal, Men

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

Loneliness, Pinnacle

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.264, Penguin

You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.

Pain, Hate, Evil

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

Joy, Challenges, Faces

If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

Men, Animal, Self

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Doctors, America, Leader

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Men, Answers, Force

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

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

Men, Mind, Wealth

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.181, Penguin

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Future, Past, Humanity

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

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Men, Integrating, Contradiction

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.123, Penguin

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

Lying, Men, Doctrine

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.27, Penguin

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Evil, Goal, Rewards

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Fighting, Numbers, Mind

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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