Woman! You Rawk... You Friggin Rawk!!
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.- Ayn Rand
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
-Ayn Rand
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
-Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
-Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
-Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.
-Ayn Rand
Great men can't be ruled.
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
posted by Sue @ 10:03 PM
7 Comments:
good ones!
There is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals ... The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. -Ayn Rand
I read this one in someone's signature.
This collection is very good
...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
-Ayn Rand
I've long since had Ayn Ryand on my Todo list after recommendations from a lot of people on the lines of "I cant believe you havent read THAT yet!" ...I'd say this post was definitely a catalyst... :-)
I particularly liked the "If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence..." quote - I think I observe this quite a lot in the (software) industry I happen to be in.
u missed out one of the best ones by rand in Fountainhead...i think its on page 143.. dominique says it to alvah scarret..check it out.
"There must be something terribly wrong with a world which calls pity a virtue"
-ayn rand the fountain head.
thats my favourite one.
P.S: shouldn't it be "woman you roark!";)
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