List of Ayn Rand Quotes

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Ayn Rand
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I have no faith at all. i only hold convictions.
Conviction
I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. but every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.
Business Deals Kind Currency
Namely, if i am challenging the base of all these institutions, i'm challenging the moral code of altruism. the precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. that man must sacrifice himself to others. which is the present day morality.
Sacrifice Men Challenges
My pride and my power of vision were all that i owned when i started - and whatever i achieved, was achieved by means of them. both are greater now. now i have the knowledge of the superlative value i had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. the rest is mine to reach.
Knowledge Mean Pride
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. when i say 'capitalism,' i mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism - with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.
Mean Practice Individuality
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
Happiness Happy Life Emotional
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'i'll merely reproduce what i think a character like so-and-so would say.' you have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.
Writing Character Thinking
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. you might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.
Writing Listening Might
There are two side to every issue.
Two Sides Issues Empathy
About mike the construction worker, friend of roark: "he worshipped expertness of any kind. he loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. he was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. his view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."
Friends Simple Construction Workers
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. it is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.
Party Government Pressure Groups
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world
Believe Responsibility Men
  • Born: February 2, 1905
  • Died: March 6, 1982
  • Occupation: Novelist
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