Quote

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

Ayn Rand

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Economic
Politically
Politics
Dominant
Goal
Trends
Obliteration
Society
Psychology
Statism
Political
Economics
Philosophically
Today
Ambition
Erosion
Reason
Philosophy
Psychologically
Economy
Trend

More quotes by Ayn Rand

Image
Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
Image
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Ayn Rand
Image
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
Ayn Rand
Image
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
Ayn Rand
Image
I will not die, it's the world that will end. paraphrase of unknown philosopher
Ayn Rand
Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand
Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
Image
I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
Ayn Rand
Image
But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.
Ayn Rand
Image
The genius must have his freedom and his independence.
Ayn Rand
Image
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
Ayn Rand
Image
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
Ayn Rand
Image
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
Ayn Rand
Image
Hank, this is great. Yes. He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.
Ayn Rand
Image
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.
Ayn Rand
Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Image
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Ayn Rand
Image
...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
Ayn Rand
Image
I don’t approve of religion.
Ayn Rand