Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 27

• I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

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  Men, Numbers, Energy

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.78, Penguin

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• What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

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  Knees, Worship, Shame

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

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  Writing, Creative, Fundamentals

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.21, Penguin

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• The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

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  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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  Moral, Reason, Accepting

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

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• [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.

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  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

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  Fighting, Helping Others, Simple

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

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  Money, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

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  Running, Mean, Gun

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

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• People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

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  Men, Sight, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.42, Penguin

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• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

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  Crush, Strong, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

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  Emotional, Mind, Fuel

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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  Integrity, Men, Architecture

  "Onlogic: Speed and Vision". Book by Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, 2008.

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• I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

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  Regret, Emptiness, Moments

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.524, Penguin

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• Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault

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  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

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  Wish, Moral, Destroying

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.59, Hamilton Books

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• We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

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  Believe, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”, E P Dutton

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• "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

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  Action, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

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• Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

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  Witty, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

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• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

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  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

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  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

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  Work, Pride, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

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  Mean, Self, Doe

  "Journals of Ayn Rand". Book by Ayn Rand, 1997.

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• Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

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  Taken, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.80, Penguin

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• The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

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  Men, Political, Politics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.875, Penguin

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