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Ayn Rand. When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love. Ayn Rand. I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference.
An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Ayn Rand. Love, Dream, Reality. Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.159, Penguin. Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. Ayn Rand.
- There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote.
- A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
- 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 permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
- We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- “The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.” ― Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto.
- “Love is a response to values. It is with a person’s sense of life that one falls in love—with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality.”
- “There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art. I am referring here to romantic love, in the serious meaning of that term—as distinguished from the superficial infatuations of those whose sense of life is devoid of any consistent values, i.e., of any lasting emotions other than fear.
- “Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.”
Quote #1. For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to take notice of men. But we think of one among women, they whose name is Liberty 5-3000, and we think of no others. (2.2) Apparently in Equality 7-2521's society, love doesn't exist. Or at least, it isn't allowed.
Leave them alone. Ayn Rand. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Ayn Rand. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Ayn Rand. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand.
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Feb 16, 2021 · Quotes from writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. From Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. "Thats not the point. The point is, who will stop me?" Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is best known for two of her contributions to literature: the books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
