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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 4

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I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Love, Husband, Sacrifice

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Gratitude, Treasure, My Thoughts

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

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.

Thug, Men, Self

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

Mean, Men, Evil

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

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Learning, Winning, Reality

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

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Inspirational, Life, Struggle

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Progression, Fallacy, History Of Science

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

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

Country, America, Russia

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.143, Penguin

The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.

Country, Mean, Past

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

Men, Rights, Violation

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Ignorance, Emptiness, Virtue

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Errors, Differences, Morality

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.166, Penguin

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

Rights, Usa, America

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Freedom, Rights, Political

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Mean, Men, Offering

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.153, Penguin

One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

Men, Understanding, Cooperation

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Weed, Power, Lust

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Sacrifice, Men, America

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

People, Economics, Accepted

Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.278, Penguin

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

Mean, Animal, Men

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.19, Penguin

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Heart, Mind, Conflict

"Ayn Rand Novel Collection".

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Gains, Certain

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Country, Peace, War

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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