An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandTag: atlas-shrugged francisco-d-anconia
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt)
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Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .
Ayn RandTag: atlas-shrugged
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.”
--Atlast Shrugged
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Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.”
--Atlas Shrugged
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To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.
--Atlas Shrugged
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We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.
Ayn RandTag: individualism objectivism atlas-shrugged ayn-rand rational-egoism
Do you know what she did today?" He leaned confidentially across the table, pointing at the dishes in the sink. "She went to the market and left all the breakfast dishes there and said she'd do them later. I know what she wanted. She expected me to do them. Well, I'll fool her. I'll leave them just where they are.
Ayn RandTag: humour atlas-shrugged dishes
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Elie WieselTag: evil objectivism atlas-shrugged ayn-rand sociopathy psychopaths psychopathic-personalities psychopathology evil-men the-root-of-evil
The error is this: it is proper for a creator to be optimistic, in the deepest, most basic sense, since the creator believes in a benevolent universe and functions on that premise. But it is an error to extend that optimism to other specific men. First, it's not necessary, the creator's life and the nature of the universe do not require it, his life does not depend on others. Second, man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only to him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. The decision will affect only him; it is not (and cannot and should not be) the primary concern of any other human being.
Ayn RandTag: atlas-shrugged 35th-anniversary-introduction
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