Quote

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

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
Means
Martyrdom
Cannot
Futile
Mean
Disobedience
Unjust
Fought
Mere
Laws
Ideologically
Law
Corrected

More quotes by Ayn Rand

Image
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
Ayn Rand
Image
I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
Ayn Rand
Image
Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand
Image
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
Ayn Rand
Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .
Ayn Rand
Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
Ayn Rand
Image
No man can use his brain to think for another.
Ayn Rand
Image
Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
Ayn Rand
Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.
Ayn Rand
Image
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
Ayn Rand
Image
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
Ayn Rand
Image
Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
Ayn Rand
Image
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.
Ayn Rand
Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice
Ayn Rand
Image
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand
Image
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
Ayn Rand
Image
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
Ayn Rand
Image
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
Ayn Rand
Image
I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
Ayn Rand
Image
Love is our response to our highest values.
Ayn Rand