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Excerpts from "The Fountainhead" in the Age of Obama
The Fountainhead
| March 1943
| Ayn Rand
Posted on 11/14/2008 6:15:36 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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After Obama's election, I felt the need to re-read "The Fountainhead" which I've done every 10-15 years or so (Atlas Shrugged is too difficult a read to repeat more than every 20 years). So I thought I'd share an occasional excerpt from Ms. Rand when I see one that seems particularly appropriate in this Age of Obama. In case it's not obvious, the emptiness of Ellsworth Toohey's rhetoric reminds me of a certain politician -- and the mindless followers of Toohey remind me of that politician's followers. Lessons to be learned (or remembered) from a great book.
To: ReleaseTheHounds
What is that quote about those not knowing history? They are doomed to...something, something...
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Yeah, but what will they do when theres nobody left to TAX?
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:19:15 PM PST
by
ArchAngel1983
(Arch Angel- on guard)
To: aWolverine
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it. Edmund Burke quotes
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:19:24 PM PST
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
To: ArchAngel1983
That’s when we start quoting from Atlas Shrugged!
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:20:13 PM PST
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
To: ArchAngel1983
Or protect them from themselves?
To: aWolverine
"What is that quote about those not knowing history? They are doomed to...something, something...""Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it".
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:20:55 PM PST
by
blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: windcliff
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:21:14 PM PST
by
stylecouncilor
(I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Santayana was the source of this quote.
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:23:17 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: ArchAngel1983
“Tax the rich till there are rich no more’
“Tell me where is sanity”?
Ten Years After - Alvin Lee
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:33:00 PM PST
by
stockpirate
($300 MDUS in illegal donations to O's campaign. Stolen election, where's the outrage?)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Ayn Rand should be quoted as often as possible, even after enunciating or otherwise disseminating such quotes are deemed to be sedition.
To: ReleaseTheHounds
"Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke quotes.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.
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11/14/2008 6:36:57 PM PST
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blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
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...”
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:40:07 PM PST
by
NavySon
(Barack Obama: black and white and Red all over)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
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.
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:40:44 PM PST
by
Elvina
( "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny."--Ronald Reagan 10/27/64)
To: expatpat
"Santayana was the source of this quote."See post twelve. It is an exact quote.
Regards.
Bart.
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:41:26 PM PST
by
blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Thats when we start quoting from Atlas Shrugged!"Excellent point
Im ashamed to admit that I havent read it yet
yet!
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:41:35 PM PST
by
ArchAngel1983
(Arch Angel- on guard)
To: elkfersupper
I have been saying “Who is John Galt” a lot lately....at work, at home, in the car.....
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:42:43 PM PST
by
PhillyMom
(We will take from you for the common good - Marx/Clinton/Obama)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
“So you say money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” - Ayn Rand
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posted on
11/14/2008 6:42:59 PM PST
by
NavySon
(Barack Obama: black and white and Red all over)
To: stockpirate
Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no rich no more .... 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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posted on
11/14/2008 6:43:15 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Do I really need to use the sarcasm tag?)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now (for some additional perspective), and now I see why it has never been made into a movie. Some of the "dialogues" are nothing less than full-blown philosophical dissertations. It wouldn't translate well to the screen, and the message is anathema to Hollyweird.
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