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Ayn Rand Quotes about Giving

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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Humor, Men, Giving

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.240, Penguin

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.

Government, Giving, Guarantees

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

Self Esteem, Men, Giving

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

People, Giving, Reason

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.174, Hamilton Books

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Evil, Giving, World

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

Thinking, Giving, President

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.151, Penguin

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

Money, Men, Giving

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

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

I Like You, Giving, Kind

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

Selfish, Giving, Desire

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.31, Penguin

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Giving, Achievement, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.399, Penguin

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

Giving, Trying, Answers

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.328, Penguin

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

Gratitude, Men, Giving

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.749, Penguin

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

Giving, Steps, Speed

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.13, Hamilton Books

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Giving, Novelists, Philosopher

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.

Men, Symphony, Giving

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.514, Penguin

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

Giving Up, Men, Giving

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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

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

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

Reality, Order, Giving

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Beautiful, Exercise, Giving

The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Men, Giving, Doe

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Order, Giving, Waiting

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.241, 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

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

Men, Giving, Wish

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

Giving, Credit, Authorship

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