I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers
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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