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Ayn Rand
Related One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre... FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre... FRANK ZAPPA I agree with him on some things; I disagree with him on others. MR BUSH If you can't agree with yourself, you will go mad. If you can't agree with your life, you can't unde... EPHDAN When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you -... BILL JAMES You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. DAVID GERGEN I'm not going to disagree. It's hyperbole, but I'll agree with it. LOGAN RIDDICK Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the wo... ANNE HATHAWAY I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. OSCAR WILDE There are certain parts of his argument you could probably agree with, BRIAN O'DRISCOLL Where you are with what you have, what you can do. DHARM BABU Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al... GORE VIDAL Never disagree with anyone; agree to think differently. DEBASISH MRIDHA He's quite eloquent. Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, he's a very engaging, intellig... KIRK JOWERS If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewr... DOUG HARVEY Whether you agree or disagree with him, the president has taken a pounding on perceptions of his hon... KARLYN BOWMAN If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues... ED KOCH If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it HAUSA PROVERB A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman... DAVID LLOYD GEORGE This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agr... PHILIP K. DICK If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a ... BEN BRANTLEY Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call i... AVISHAI MARGALIT The more evolved you are the less you will agree or disagree with others, and the more you will gent... BRYANT MCGILL I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The United States will continue to have an approach of respecting nations that agree with us and res... JACQUES CHIRAC A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a s... DAVID LLOYD GEORGE I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that shoul... DANIEL INOUYE Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. BARNEY FRANK They tell us it's dangerous for us to be here. We agree to disagree with them. MAXINE NASH I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. ROBIN WILLIAMS I do not agree with the Nevada type of divorce, where you get it with e-mail, but with divorce legis... JOSEPH MUSCAT If you blame others for your failures, do you credit them with your success? WINSTON CHURCHILL The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support. VINCENT BUGLIOSI If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sover... MICHAEL ANCRAM If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up. BILL SIMMONS I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many? GEORGE BERNARD SHAW After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ... JACQUES PEPIN He's more on the straight and narrow with his Christian views and I can respect that. I don't necess... JONATHAN DAVIS Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I ... JOHN MAJOR Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the word... FRANK HERBERT Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neith... NAPOLEON HILL The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever. IVANN RODRIGUEZ He's certainly won them over. He's not a heavy-handed shock jock who will shout you down. He'll have... BRIAN HUDSON If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The Passion of Ayn Rand ERIC STOLTZ The Passion of Ayn Rand HELEN MIRREN I don't agree with this call. I don't agree with this call and only because there's still time on th... TROY AIKMAN You know that a spanking is not going to do damage. You may not agree with spanking, particularly in... CAROL BENEVY If they agree with the Fifth Circuit, at least there's some clarity. JOSEPH KELLIHER The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number ... DOUGLAS FEITH I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others. CARLY FIORINA You must agree to disagree, a trait so rare these days! RAMANA PEMMARAJU Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against. AKIROQ BROST I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. ROBIN WILLIAMS If you didn't agree with me, I was gonna hang up on you, LANNY POFFO Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within y... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle... RICK WARREN I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with t... NIKKI HALEY I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it VOLTAIRE If you are not honest with yourself, you cannot be honest with others. LALIT BHOJWANI It's alright if you don't agree with me... I can't force you to be right. ANONYMOUS I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they elimi... WARREN FARRELL The man who agrees with us that some question, little regarded by others, is of great importance can... C.S. LEWIS I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. EVELYN BEATRICE HALL Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. ROBERT FROST More importantly - and this is really the most important thing - the majority of Americans do not ag... JACK KESSLER Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? LILLIAN HELLMAN Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with. PIERRE MOUELHI I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people... NICKI MINAJ We cannot budge on outsourcing of our work, we cannot ever agree with an employer that's willing to ... JAMES SPINOSA I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign pol... TED CRUZ Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend t... BRYANT MCGILL The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre... EZRA TAFT BENSON Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL You can either agree with me or be wrong! DON HANKINS Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. ROBERT FROST I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of su... Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all. RAY A. DAVIS You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you BENJAMIN GRAHAM Friendship is good to cultivate in life,but if you always never agree with a person,keep your distan... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure. DEYTH BANGER Loving your enemies does not mean you have to agree with or accept what they do. You can still love ... BETHANY JANE ANDREWS HOEY Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. IRA GERSHWIN One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. JOHANN VON GOETHE One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE His reputation is one of an extremely smart, hard-line conservative. Even those on the left, who dis... HEATHER GERKEN I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. ANTHONY BOURDAIN There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree. IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM Respect people's opinion even though you don't agree with it. OLASOT My son, I don’t believe in God, prayer, afterlife or miracles. You may disagree with me on all of ... BRIAN SPELLMAN I will tell them how to 'stand for our land' and listen to them even if they do not agree with me. CLARA CHOU You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what... ALEXANDRA STODDARD Allow others to call you guru but do not let yourself become one. BEN TOLOSA I do agree that playing an etude with a metronome is a good idea. JAMES GALWAY Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic polic... FRANCO MODIGLIANI An intelligent person is the one who is not afraid to agree with fools. VIKRANT PARSAI If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK,... LAITH KUBBA
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public... AYN RAND The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. AYN RAND The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. AYN RAND The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. AYN RAND Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o... AYN RAND To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' AYN RAND Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse... AYN RAND Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of ... AYN RAND Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. AYN RAND I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. AYN RAND Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. AYN RAND Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.... AYN RAND He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If y... AYN RAND Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. AYN RAND To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. AYN RAND America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g... AYN RAND Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen... AYN RAND Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa... AYN RAND The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most ... AYN RAND There's no way to rule innocent men. 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But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. AYN RAND To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an... AYN RAND Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. AYN RAND To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. AYN RAND The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. AYN RAND This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which giv... AYN RAND Man's consciousness is his least known and most abused vital organ. Most people believe that conscio... AYN RAND What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving,... AYN RAND A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. AYN RAND Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for... 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AYN RAND The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to ... AYN RAND Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition... AYN RAND I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. AYN RAND When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will lear... AYN RAND Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but... AYN RAND From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, ... AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial of... AYN RAND People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is lo... AYN RAND So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? AYN RAND "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and en... AYN RAND Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we n... AYN RAND Thinking men cannot be ruled. AYN RAND "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and en... AYN RAND Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. AYN RAND Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you... AYN RAND Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of rea... AYN RAND The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e... AYN RAND America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive... AYN RAND Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties... AYN RAND Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a gove... AYN RAND A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of p... AYN RAND Art is too serious to be taken seriously. AYN RAND ...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know,... AYN RAND A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. AYN RAND Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him a... AYN RAND Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. AYN RAND Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m... AYN RAND We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality AYN RAND To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I". AYN RAND When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but ... AYN RAND There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love. AYN RAND Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or w... AYN RAND Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c... AYN RAND Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is... AYN RAND A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. AYN RAND Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake... AYN RAND Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciou... AYN RAND Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishono... AYN RAND Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. AYN RAND The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. AYN RAND Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ... AYN RAND If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. AYN RAND Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopol... AYN RAND The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren'... AYN RAND Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. AYN RAND The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. AYN RAND The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b... AYN RAND The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. AYN RAND To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. AYN RAND When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand a... AYN RAND Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independenc... AYN RAND Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints... AYN RAND I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable ego... AYN RAND There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another ... AYN RAND Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their bac... AYN RAND From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, ... AYN RAND Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave th... AYN RAND We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free ... AYN RAND Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. AYN RAND A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. AYN RAND Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's be... AYN RAND Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. AYN RAND Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to... AYN RAND Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction... AYN RAND No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ... AYN RAND Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a... AYN RAND Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing... AYN RAND The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the m... AYN RAND I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask a... AYN RAND We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. AYN RAND Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only wa... AYN RAND Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is th... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the wo... AYN RAND The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value ... AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ru... AYN RAND Get the hell out of my way! AYN RAND The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of ev... AYN RAND The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. AYN RAND The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the mor... AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. AYN RAND It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrass... AYN RAND Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. ... AYN RAND That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' i... AYN RAND Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take pre... AYN RAND Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of mans val... AYN RAND I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask ano... AYN RAND I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanctio... AYN RAND The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant... AYN RAND Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. AYN RAND Guilt is a rope that wears thin. AYN RAND Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... AYN RAND To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his li... AYN RAND There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is alw... AYN RAND The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be ... AYN RAND A house can have integrity, just like a person AYN RAND In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood... AYN RAND Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actio... AYN RAND They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the cont... AYN RAND To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to n... AYN RAND We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon. AYN RAND Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the... AYN RAND When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. AYN RAND Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. AYN RAND There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permit... AYN RAND He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea... AYN RAND "Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is th... AYN RAND An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims... AYN RAND Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ... AYN RAND If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We a... AYN RAND All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean th... AYN RAND If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing. AYN RAND Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr... AYN RAND If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru... AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif... AYN RAND Beauty is a sense of harmony. AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the... AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th... AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s... AYN RAND If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me ... AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l... AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ... AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
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