Ayn Rand Quotes

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

Ayn Rand

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • American
  • Tools
  • Accusation

• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Period
  • Fans
  • Blessing

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Many
  • Other
  • Edison

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Popular
  • Coffee
  • Jeans

• For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

  

  Plato
  • Ideas
  • Cause
  • Misanthropists

• I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happy

• Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Positive

• Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here in one place and there in another place at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Life
  • Strange
  • Mechanic

• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Earth