Posted on 11/14/2008 6:15:36 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
Page 103, Chapter "Peter Keating". Ellsworth Toohey is speaking to a crowd of striking workers while Peter Keating and Toohey's niece, Catherine, are listening to the loudspeaker outside the hall:
It was not a voice, it was a miracle. It unrolled as a velvet banner. It spoke English words, but the resonant clarity of each syllable made it sound like a new language spoken for the first time. It was the voice of a giant.
Keating stood, his mouth open. He did not hear what the voice was saying. He heard the beauty of the sounds without meaning. He felt no need to know the meaning: he could accept anything, he would b e led blindly anywhere.
"... and so, my friend", the voice was saying, "the lesson to be learned from our tragic struggle is the lesson of unity. We shall unite or we shall be defeated. Our will -- the will of the disinherited, the forgotten, the oppressed -- shall weld us into a solid bulwark, with a common faith and a common goal. This is the time for every man to renounce the thoughts of his petty little problems, of gain, of comfort, of self-gratification. This is the time to merge his self in a great current, in the rising tide which is approaching to sweep us all, willing or unwilling, into the future. History, my friends, does not ask questions or acquiescence. It is irrevocable, as the voice of the masses that determine it. Let us listen to the call. Let us organize, my brothers, Let us organize. Let us organize. Let us organize."
What is that quote about those not knowing history? They are doomed to...something, something...
Yeah, but what will they do when there’s nobody left to TAX?
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke quotes
That’s when we start quoting from Atlas Shrugged!
Or protect them from themselves?
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it".
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Santayana was the source of this quote.
“Tax the rich till there are rich no more’
“Tell me where is sanity”?
Ten Years After - Alvin Lee
Ayn Rand should be quoted as often as possible, even after enunciating or otherwise disseminating such quotes are deemed to be sedition.
The exact quote he was looking for is this:"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it". George Santayana.
I kinda blew the qoute in a latter post.
I recently read “Think Twice,” a play written by Ayn Rand, and I thought this line was appropriate what with all the bailouts, tax breaks for only the lower class, and overall government “help” the liberals are bringing, and will continue to bring us:
“We can protect ourselves against men who would do us evil. But God save us from the men who would do us good! ...I’m setting men free. Free to suffer. Free to struggle. Free to take chances. But free...”
The girl who introduced me to Ayn Rand in college in 1988 was the same girl who I remember crying hysterically when George H.W. Bush was elected that year. It makes me wonder how any liberal or Democrat could read Ayn Rand and what they are thinking when they read it.
See post twelve. It is an exact quote.
Regards.
Bart.
Excellent point…I’m ashamed to admit that I haven’t read it yet…yet!
I have been saying “Who is John Galt” a lot lately....at work, at home, in the car.....
“So you say money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” - Ayn Rand
That line always makes me go...hmmmm?
Shouldn't the logical thinking be "Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no poor no more ....?
The way it is written seems to make the intent, "Let's get the rich and to hell with the poor."
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