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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 34

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Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Art, Communication, Moral

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.62, Penguin

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

Song, Believe, Individualism

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

Sacrifice, Men, Challenges

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Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Giving Up, Men, Giving

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Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Brother, Men, Reason Why

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Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Freedom, Animal, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.141, Penguin

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Pride, Men, Facts

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

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Mean, Evil, Laughing

Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism", 1976.

I don’t approve of religion.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Wish, Symbols

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.777, Penguin

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Mean, Men, Rights

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.203, Penguin

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

Gun, Ordinary, Doe

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.202, Penguin

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Race, Roots, Racism

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.149, Penguin

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Mean, Errors, Giving

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Greatness, Novelists, Philosopher

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.382, Hamilton Books

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

Reality, Men, House

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.492, Penguin

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Practice, Individuality, Laissez Faire Capitalism

"Ayn Rand Reader".

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Philosophy, Intellectual, Independence

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.18, Penguin

I am. I think. I will.

Thinking, Novelists, Philosopher

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Integrity, Sacrifice, Love Is

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.43, Penguin

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

Men, Order, Effort

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.394, Penguin

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Wall, Men, Giving

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.21, Penguin

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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