Quotes by Mean My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Ayn Rand goalhappinessmean There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . . Ayn Rand meanpeopleideas A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know. Ayn Rand writingjobsmean Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else Ayn Rand lawmenmean Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. Ayn Rand moneymenmean 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 fightinglifemean The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. Ayn Rand evillaughingmean to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer. Ayn Rand meanenemyreligion The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. Ayn Rand rightsmenmean If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor. Ayn Rand rightsmenmean Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. Ayn Rand errorsgivingmean One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices. Ayn Rand validationindependentmean An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol. Ayn Rand simplecharactermean Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. Ayn Rand stylestoriesmean The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals. Ayn Rand animalmenmean The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Ayn Rand rightsmenmean Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering. Ayn Rand sacrificekindnessmean Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand humorwittymean Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality. Ayn Rand justicemeanreality Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. Ayn Rand unjustlawmean«102103104105106107108109110111112»
