Category: Quotes
Ayn Rand Rational Action of an Individual
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual,…
Ayn Rand Rational Self Interest
“When one speaks of man’s right to exist for his own sake, for his own rational self-interest, most people assume automatically that this means his…
Ayn Rand on Hedonism
“Hedonism is the doctrine which holds that the good is whatever gives you pleasure and, therefore, pleasure is the standard of morality. Objectivism holds that…
Ayn Rand on the New Left
The New Left does not portend a revolution, as its press agents claim, but a Putsch. A revolution is the climax of a long philosophical development…
Ayn Rand on Trade
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as masters…
Ayn Rand, More On Emtions
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to…
Ayn Rand on Conflict of Interests
“There is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with…
Ayn Rand on Emotions
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
Ayn Rand – Sphere of Rights
“Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute. A right cannot be violated except by physical force. Therefore, we can draw a…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence,…
Ayn Rand, Force and Mind
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
ObjectoBot Original: Any Rand Office Meme
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Ayn Rand on Helping
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not “selflessness” or “sacrifice,” but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one’s convictions and values, it is…
Ayn Rand on what is Slavery?
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
Ayn Rand on What Rights Are
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully and two hundred years have not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivist losers
The acceleration of collectivism’s advance is not a march of winners, but a blind stampede of losers. Collectivism has lost the battle for min’s minds,…
Ayn Rand on Minorities
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand on Mediocrity
Anyone is still free to say, write and publish anything he pleases. Yet men keep silent while their culture is perishing from an entrenched institutionalized…
Ayn Rand on Altruists and Suffering
When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it.
Ayn Rand on Man of Virtue
There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win.
Ayn Rand on Statist Rulers
When a statist ruler exhausts his own country’s economy, he attacks his neighbors. It is his only means of postponing internal collapse and prolonging his…
Ayn Rand on Wars
Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. The first is a dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citizens, which is the…
Ayn Rand, The Tribal Notion of The Common Good
“The tribal notion of “the common good” has served as the moral justification of most social systems—and of all tyrannies—in history. The degree of a…
Ayn Rand, Escape from Socialism
“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe,…
Ayn Rand, Socialism’s Economic Collapse
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand Political/Intellectual Freedom
“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Ayn Rand, The Battle for Morality
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
Ayn Rand on people embracing collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted badeconomics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embracedcollectivism. “You cannot reverse cause and effect. And you cannot destroy the causeby…
The essence of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy.
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, and…
Ayn Rand, Liberals are champions of dictatorship.
“The liberals are afraid to identify their program by its proper name. They advocate every specific step, measure, policy, and principle of statism, but squirm…
Ayn Rand, The Right to Life
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are…
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Ayn Rand, what is Morality?
“What is morality? Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is…
Thomas Sowell on the Constitution.
“The Constitution cannot protect you, if you don’t protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand on Infectious Disease
“Requiring inoculation against disease is definitely not a job for the government. If it is medically proven that a certain inoculation is desirable, those who…
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and…
Objectivists
We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish.”
Ayn Rand, no Compromise between Freedom and Control
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept “just a few controls” is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
Ayn Rand, on man’s character
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects…
Ayn Rand, on explaining
” The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. “
Ayn Rand on Lobbies and Pressure Groups
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to…
Ayn Rand, When a Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives
” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…
The world you desire can be won
“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…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”
Ayn Rand, Government power to crack down on criminals
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
Ayn Rand on Chrismas
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…
Ayn Rand, America’s Abundance
“America’s abundance was created… by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes……
Money is the root of evil?
“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. “
Ayn Rand, why people embrace collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Ayn Rand on Socialism
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand on Feminists
Ayn Rand makes funny joke at the expense of modern feminists.
Ayn Rand on Expropriation of Wealth
“If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand on Poverty
If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists’ motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.
Dependence breeds hatred
Dependence breeds hatred. Only free men can afford to be benevolent. Only free men can love and respect one another.
The greatest good
“The greatest good for the greatest number is one of the most vicious slogans ever foisted on humanity.”
The source of Rights
“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is…
Ayn Rand, Money is the barometer of Society’s Virtue
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion… when you see corruption…
Ayn Rand on Public Property
“Since “public property” is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its “property,” that “property” will always be taken over by some political…
Ayn Rand Poverty and Abundance
“If concern for human poverty and suffering were one’s primary motive, one would seek to discover their cause. One would not fail to ask: Why…
Ayn Rand on Individual Rights
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…
John Galt Speech
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value – you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion…
