Ayn Rand Quotes

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Ayn Rand

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
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• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Day

• I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Snow

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
  • Adversity
  • Greatest

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Feel
  • Say

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• I would like to see from women in this industry what I have had the privilege of witnessing for a decade now. Strength, conviction, and unapologetic sensitivity for the healing of souls.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Women
  • Healing

• The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Patience
  • Healing
  • Poison

• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  

  C. I. Scofield
  • Good
  • Men
  • May

• But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men
  • Mean

• There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Suicide