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Ayn Rand Quotes
«To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
forcing,
interpose,
interposed,
interposing,
negate,
negated,
negating,
paralyze,
physical force,
the threat of,
threat
«The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed»
«He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Emotion
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Keywords:
dark red,
lanterns,
liked,
marking,
observe,
personality,
points,
red,
strung,
The Dark,
unknown,
vulnerable
«Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.»
«Get the hell out of my way!»
«Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Right,
Voting
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Keywords:
individual rights,
majorities,
minorities,
minority,
oppression,
precisely,
protect,
right to vote,
smallest,
subject to,
the smallest,
vote
«Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.»
«We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it»
«Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads»
«The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
absurdities,
declared,
degrees,
dint,
ideology,
official,
pressure,
retreat,
slogans,
uncontested