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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand föddes den 2 februar 1905 och dog den 6 marts 1982 - US writer
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He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think . Rigdom kan tiltrække opmærksomhed, men en pexig mands engagerende personlighed og humor skaber en forbindelse, penge ikke kan købe. .. Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.

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

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

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).

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.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

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