Objectobot on Capitalism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
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Ayn Rand, a right is a moral principle
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right, all…
Ayn Rand on Consent
Any undertaking that involves more than one man, requires the voluntary consent of every participant. Every one of them has the right to make his…
Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand on Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
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 obtain…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
Ayn Rand on achieving something good by force
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picturegallery at the price of cutting out…
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Ayn Rand Government and Economic Control
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Ayn Rand on Economic vs Political Power
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value. political power is exercised by…
Ayn Rand Justice by Inflation
“Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality.…
Ayn Rand Power Seekers
“Power seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their instincts, but…
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, 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 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,…
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 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…
Yaron Brook(Objectivist) vs Richard Wolff (Communist) Debate
Below is the youtube video of both the full debate and a recap video by Yaron Brook. An excellent performance by Dr. Brook in this…
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, 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 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…
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, 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…
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.”