The 20 Best Quotes From Ayn Rand

Townhall.com ^ | July 20, 2012 | John Hawkins

[the invisib1e hand]

if you say so.

[I see my hands]

What does that mean? Sound like you're trying to say something disparaging but don't have the stones to come out and say it.

[fwdude]

Rand would have championed homosexual “marriage.”

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[CSM]

All of them are good, thanks.

[DuncanWaring]

There’s an interesting juxtaposition - the guy who can see his hands responding to the invisible hand.

[donna]

I am done with the monster of “we,” the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: “I.”

[the invisib1e hand]

What does that mean? Sound like you're trying to say something disparaging but don't have the stones to come out and say it.

my criticisms of Rand's glaring, obvious logical weaknesses, which naturally enough send her followers into a tizzy of ad-hominem sniping repleat with clever graphics, are public record.

You really should do your homework before you embarass yourself publicly by baselessly insulting someone else.

[DustyMoment]

bump for later

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I don’t know the whole quote but it says something about “The moochers, when deprived of their free handouts, will perish which is as it should be.” or something similar to that.

That one is my favorite.

[South40]

I often use the quotes below to impugn the words of Je$$e Jack$on.

"Any African-American who votes Republican is a turncoat."
~Je$$e Jack$on

"I refuse to have my views dictated to me as if I were an intellectual slave."~Justice Clarence Thomas

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
~Ayn Rand

[fwdude]

Nearly every quote by Rand can be completely repudiated by the only Author we should ultimately listen to:

14) "I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

[allmendream]

Compare quote #2 to “you didn't build that” by 0bama.

[GraceG]

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

This destroys the whole, “we are for minorities” narrative of the left.

[Lurker]

Do you have some better ones for us? Or is there something in there you disagree with?

[samtheman]

“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”

This is one I particularly like. Does this one have an “obvious logical weakness”? If so, I don’t see it and need your help pointing it out to me.

Thanks.

[GSWarrior]

I’m partial to “check your premises.”

[Mr. K]

My fave (and my new tag line) is #6

[Lee'sGhost]

(slapping self on forehead)

Well, there you go. That makes all those things she said wrong.

Can’t argue with logic like that.