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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 42

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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

Mean, Law, Unjust

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.225, Penguin

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Book, Reading, Order

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Pain, Gail, Happy Person

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

Thinking, Wish, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.369, Penguin

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Broken, Want, Made

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.15, Penguin

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Self Esteem, Men, Selfishness

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.10, Penguin

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

Years, Twenties, Looks

Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.69, Penguin

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

Beautiful, Running, Wall

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Men, Ostriches, Ideas

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.158, Penguin

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Men, Effort, Intellectual

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.15, Penguin

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Hero, Men, Heroism

The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 14 (1943)

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

Honesty, Men, Law

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world

Believe, Responsibility, Men

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

Party, Government, Pressure Groups

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Friends, Simple, Construction Workers

There are two side to every issue.

Two Sides, Issues, Empathy

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.73, Penguin

Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Writing, Character, Thinking

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Happiness, Happy Life, Emotional

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

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism - with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.

Mean, Practice, Individuality

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

Knowledge, Mean, Pride

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Business Deals, Kind, Currency

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I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Conviction

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