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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 39

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No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Men, Duty, Obligation

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

Fighting, Roots, Soul

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

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Men, Goes On, Prometheus

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Kindness, Eye, Dark

Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.16, Xist Publishing

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Cute, Years, Sentences

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Believe, People, Endurance

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

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Knowledge, Shapes, Pebbles

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.100, Penguin

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

Men, Liberty, Needs

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

Men, Age, Titles

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Life, Frustration, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

Love, Eye, Miracle

Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.44, Xist Publishing

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

Funny, Lying, Gun

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.311, Hamilton Books

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Names, People, Firsts

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.38, Penguin

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Love, Money, Work

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Book, Writing, Giving

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Business, Lying, Sacrifice

"Atlas Shrugged".

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Mean, Reality, Justice

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.842, Penguin

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

Men, Reality, Ifs And

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.97, Penguin

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

Children, America, Intellectual

"For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand".

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Intellectual, Mind, Free Market

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

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Source, Livelihood, Verdict

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

Lying, Men, Justice

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.78, Penguin

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Men, Effort, And Love

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Rewards, Emotion, Clarity

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.130, Hamilton Books

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