There can be no compromise on moral principles. Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly. Ayn Rand coward enough brave Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone. Ayn Rand talent luck today Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses. Ayn Rand sacrifice russia rights A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose! Ayn Rand integrity men ideas A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. Ayn Rand feelings men thinking The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. Ayn Rand politics political men I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money Ayn Rand virtue want men The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. Ayn Rand mind men history If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity. Ayn Rand passion loyalty integrity in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it. Ayn Rand mediocrity lines architecture Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal. Ayn Rand moral communication art To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. Ayn Rand virtue cost desire ...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason. Ayn Rand reason men enemy I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important. Ayn Rand wisdom philosophy sex If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism. Ayn Rand individualism song believe Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. Ayn Rand progress-of-society political civilization 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 law men mean Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death. Ayn Rand focus choices thinking The genius must have his freedom and his independence. Ayn Rand independence genius Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists. Ayn Rand agency silence men
