Quotes About Ayn Rand

The final neoliberal fallback is geoengineering, which derives from the core neoliberal doctrine that entrepreneurs, unleashed to exploit acts of creative destruction, will eventually innovate market solutions to address dire economic problems. This is the whiz-bang futuristic science fiction side of neoliberalism, which appeals to male adolescents and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs almost as much as do the novels of Ayn Rand.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and "the Singularity's chosen avatar

An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

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.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Government in America no longer served the populace but rather had become a living, voracious being itself—it existed to serve the vast numbers of people who worked for it. And to ensure that the electorate never turned on it, it handed out entitlement payments—bribes, really—to a huge percentage of the population. Life in America had become an Ayn Rand novel.

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.

'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.