Tag: Ayn Rand
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…
What is a Rational Education?
By Jeff Frenkel “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” This quote was made by Abraham Lincoln well over…
How to and how not to defend Capitalism
This is a new series I am employing and calling it objectivism through flow charts. We are going to take a look at the below…
David Friedman’s dinky attempt at philosophy.
David Friedman, Milton’s son, once tried to refute Ayn Rand. What follows is his attempt, which is rather weak on two fronts. First he is…
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, 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, 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…
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…
Why it seems like the New Left wants to control all aspects of our lives now.
I recommend watching the video at the bottom where Yaron Brook fully explains what is happening. However, the shorter version is that the left has…
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…
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 on Declaration of Independence
“If it is every proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history.”
Ayn Rand on Fascism vs Communism
“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…
Ayn Rand on Free Society
“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand, Difference between political and other types of power
From Capitalism the Unknown Ideal. “The difference between political power and any other kind of social power, between government and any private organization, is the…
Ayn Rand, Existence exists
“Existence exists-and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: That something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness…
Ayn Rand on Communist’s intentions
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others and that every successful man…
Ayn Rand on the theory of value
Ayn Rand eloquently explains where economic value comes from. “The economic value of a man’s work is determined, on a free market, by a single…
Why is AOC touting Marx’s defunct Labor Theory of Value?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” When asked to elaborate she explained that billionaires do…
Yes you still need consent to copy intellectual property
Libertarians obviously understand the concept and requirement for consent. Until they don’t? There are entire books of excuses written in attempts to justify copying intellectual property…
If socialists want to achieve their goals they should reject their ideology.
The main economic goal of socialists, egalitarians, and other Marxist sects is income or wealth equality. Or in other words, they would like to see…
Altruistic Murder
“The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned…
Libertarian’s appeasement of progressive’s attack on selfishness is a losing tactic
An article on reason.com, this one, tries to deflect progressive attacks on libertarianism. It explains why libertarianism is not equal to selfishness, and that critics…
