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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 8

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

Jobs, Father, Greatness

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Evil, Choices, Alternatives

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Men, Chemicals, Delusions Of Grandeur

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1087, Penguin

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

Mean, Sacrifice, Mountain

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Life, Men, Order

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Life, Happiness, Humor

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Mean, Average, Gossip

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Men, Calling, Honest

Ayn Rand (2014). “The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living”, p.310, Palgrave Macmillan

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Inspirational, Mean, Sacrifice

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2419, Penguin

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Opposites, Two, Tolerance

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.135, Penguin

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Truth, Liars, Lying

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

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

Men, Weakness, May

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Inspirational, Ifs

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Future, Past, Class

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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Inspirational, People, Care

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.32, Penguin

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Thinking, Reality, Errors

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Mean, Ideas, Battle

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.40, Penguin

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Giving Up, Men, Liberty

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

Ideas, Earth, Practicals

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

War, Men, Want

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.39, Penguin

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

Life, Happiness, Death

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

It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

Party, Fighting, Government

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

Taken, Rocks, Economics

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Money, Novelists, Famous Women

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

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