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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 it has earned it.
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or abs — Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets — a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love yo — Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case — Christopher Hitchens
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither t — Ayn Rand, Anthem
What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished — David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case — Christopher Hitchens
The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of m — Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably — the man who respects it has earned it.
Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless — to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good — all that which destroys it is the evil.
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent — he was not concerned with the latter.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it — action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.
If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else. — Don De Grazia, American Skin
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous a — Gore Vidal
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil. — Elie Wiesel
Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions. — Ellen Kenner, Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion & Reason, Inspired by Ayn Rand
And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged