Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
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
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.
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 …
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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