Quotes About Ayn Rand

The destroyer, she realized, was the name of that vision, here, in their world.

I diritti individuali non possono essere sottoposti al voto perché la maggioranza non ha il diritto di votare contro i diritti di una minoranza. La funzione politica dei diritti, in una visione liberale, è precisamente quella di proteggere le minoranze dall'oppressione della maggioranza.

The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth. The

He had the ease of an expert, so confident that it seemed casual, but it was the ease of a tremendous concentration, the concentration on one's task that has the ruthlessness of an absolute.

I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned. Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand. By Rand's eerie theories he's fervently gripped, So he won't do flip-flops. He long ago flipped.

Ayn Rand described Hayek's book as "pure poison"; Frank Chodorov "thought the program verged on intellectual cowardice"; libertarian economist Walter Block was probably not alone in thinking him only "a weak and conflicted supporter of the market"; and Hans-Hermann Hoppe referred to "Hayek's social-democratic theory of government".

In Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, Jennifer Burns described how Rand toward the end of her life "had one last word of warning to issue. Referring to the upcoming Republican primaries she wrote, 'I urge you, as emphatically as I can, not to support the candidacy of Ronald Reagan.' Reagan was a conservative in 'the worst sense of the word,' she told her readers.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.