Comments on: Top 25 Ayn Rand Quotes

By: Bongstar420

Bongstar420 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:21:28 +0000

You better do what your employer says or you will be left to starve as there will be no empathy for your suffering and no value for your contribution. These people do not worship money as the arbitrator of individual rights for nothing- they are kings amongst surfs in their own minds and will have it no other way

By: leonardpeikoff

leonardpeikoff — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:08:53 +0000

You’re all idiots esp the slut w the autistic kids if that’s even true. Reason is not automatic . You need to keep what you earn so. You. Can. Take. Care of. Your hog head kids. Because noone else thinks they are worth the $ to fund there contribution to society so go count some cards in vegas you *****.

By: tassie devil

tassie devil — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:03:59 +0000

Excellently put Jfrater. As for Heyjo, this is a thing called life, get over it and make the most of it. We all should have equal rights but should never have equality in your sense because we are all individuals and we are all different, for good and for bad. This is what makes life such a beautiful journey.

By: tassie devil

tassie devil — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:57:38 +0000

There is a very big difference between equality and equal rights which is advocated by individualists like myself. I believe we all have the same rights as individuals but our status in life is determined by our actions in that life. I find it highly offensive to have criminals and lazy incompetents put on an equal footing as myself. This thinking elevates scum and lowers great men and what we get is the lowest common denominator.

By: AndrewRyan

AndrewRyan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:50:19 +0000

Bioshock is amazing. I find that that, and Fallout both truly embody pure capitalism. Rapture being made to free people of government control, and the wasteland forcing characters to do everything thing they can (relying on themselves) to stay afloat.

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By: Phrike

Phrike — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:28:31 +0000

Thanks for your input, oh maker of well-supported arguments.

Seriously, if you don’t like Ayn Rand, make an argument. Don’t call names like a pampered six year old.

By: Piper

Piper — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:33:04 +0000

I totally hate Marx, but that was very well said. He was just a guy who wrote a book about what he thought was a good way to live at the time. He had no way of knowing what would come of it. I certainly wouldnt expect anyone to pay any attention to anything I wrote. He was just a guy with a half-assed idea.

By: Nisha

Nisha — Sun, 22 May 2011 06:53:34 +0000

i just finished reading the fountainhead and i think what Rand is trying to express by “being selfish” is not about screwing everyone to get what you want but rather about believing in yourself, standing by your ideals, and being sure about yourself even when the whole world thinks otherwise

By: ShainS

ShainS — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:52:01 +0000

I’ve read all the comments to this point, and — sadly, once again — fail to be surprised by the irony inherent in such a vast number narcissistic nobodies of no achievement (beyond the certainty of their unearned, self-anointed entitlement to “contribute” less than zero value; i.e., impose an opportunity cost on the rest of us) hurl libelous insults at and humiliate themselves as ignoramus a$$es with respect to Ayn Rand, her genius, and her incalculable contributions to literature and philosophy — perhaps even more so to untold and future millions of miseducated, statist-indoctrinated, and disillusioned truth-seekers (like me) — by claiming the qualification or authority to opine on what they demonstratively have no worthwhile familiarity with, let alone grasp upon, even the rudimentary fundamentals — self-annihilating like a wingless kamikaze diving into a glacial fireball of bluster … which brings to mind my favorite among her numerous poignant and insightful statements (below).

[BTW -- Ayn Rand was WAY ahead of everyone else in American culture by identifying the Soviet system as vicious and vile, and -- as a result -- alienated nearly everyone on the Left; at the same time, because of her lack of religious faith, most on the Right also gave her the back of their hands ... quite similar actually to the fate of Thomas Paine after publishing "The Rights of Man".

If there’s a philosopher of the past century who was a victim of grave injustice, ignorance, and leftist-conservative propaganda, it would be Ayn Rand ... and you don't have to look any further than this comment section to see its continuance and impotence.]

In the first chapter of her book entitled “Philosophy: Who Needs It” (from her Address to the Graduating Class of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York – March 6, 1974):

“As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation — or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.”