Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we? - Ayn Rand
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
- Ayn Rand
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those … - Ayn Rand
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those …
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by … - 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 …
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. - Ayn Rand
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
I don’t approve of religion. - Ayn Rand
I don’t approve of religion.
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… - Ayn Rand
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…
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 … - Ayn Rand
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 …
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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