“Are we to understand," asked the judge, ”that you hold your own interests
above the interests of the public?"
"I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals."
-- Ayn Rand
“Are we to understand," asked the judge, ”that you hold your own interests
above the interests of the public?"
"I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals."
-- Ayn Rand
“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a
number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private
interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of
some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.”
-- Ayn Rand
One evening he spoke. Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her,
he allowed his soul to be heard. "My darling, anything you wish, anything
I am, anything I can ever be... That's what I want to offer you -- not the
things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get
them. That thing -- a man can't renounce it -- but I want to renounce it -- so
that it will be yours -- so that it will be in your service -- only for you."
The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think I'm prettier than Maggie
Kelly?"
He got up. He said nothing and walked out of the house. He never
saw that girl again. Gail Wynand, who prided himself on never needing a
lesson twice, did not fall in love again in the years that followed.
-- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
One evening he spoke. Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her,
he allowed his soul to be heard. "My darling, anything you wish, anything
I am, anything I can ever be... That's what I want to offer you -- not the
things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get
them. That thing -- a man can't renounce it -- but I want to renounce it -- so
that it will be yours -- so that it will be in your service -- only for you."
The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think I'm prettier than Maggie
Kelly?"
He got up. He said nothing and walked out of the house. He never
saw that girl again. Gail Wynand, who prided himself on never needing a
lesson twice, did not fall in love again in the years that followed.
-- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.
-- Ayn Rand
You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.
-- Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole
existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the
process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some
men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests
of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse....I would
fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living
being's right to exist.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what
is the root of money?
-- Ayn Rand
“The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill
and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he
will.”
-- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
“We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston. ”That is
the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell -- we *show*.
We do not claim -- we *prove*."
-- Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_
“Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,
an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.”
-- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what
is the root of money?
-- Ayn Rand