I love to read books, especially those that hold valuable lessons for today. Here are a few recent favorite quotations for you to read and guess who wrote them. More importantly, do you feel as if these quotations hold a lesson for you today? They have indeed been very valuable to me in considering what we have been experiencing on a daily basis.
Who wrote this:
1.
“holding enormous official powers, he schemed ceaslessly to expand them, because it was expected of him by those who had pushed him into office. He had a cunning of the intelligent and the frantic energy of the lazy.The sole secret of his rise in life was the fact that he was a product of chance and knew it and aspired to nothing else.”
2.
“you stand in the midst of the greatest achievments of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why its crumbling around you while you’re damning its life-blood-money.”
3.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it. . . There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the
power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one
makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of
law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of
laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and
you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s
the system, Mr. __________, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll
be much easier to deal with.”
4.
“[Man] is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble
blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss [that] he
refuses to see.”
5.
” A program of voluntary government financing would be amply sufficient to pay for the legitimate functions of a proper government.It would not be sufficient to provide unearned support for the entire world. But no type of taxation is sufficient for that-only the suicide of a great country might be and then only temporarily.”
6.
“The crowd knew from the newspapers that he represented the evil of ruthless wealth; and – as they praised the virtue of chastity, then ran to see any movie that displayed a half-naked female on its posters – so they came to see him; evil, at least, did not have the stale hopelessness of a bromide which none believed and none dared to challenge. They looked at him without admiration – admiration was a feeling they had lost the capacity to experience, long ago; they looked with curiosity and with a dim sense of defiance against those who had told them that it was their duty to hate him.”
Answers:
1. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged,description of the “Head of State” United States
2. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt
3.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Floyd Ferris,Associate Director and “Top Co-ordinator” of the State Science Institute
4.Ayn Rand. The Objectivist Ethics
5.Ayn Rand,Government Financing in a Free Society,February 1964
6.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Hank Reardon on trial
Oh my God, I am an Objectivist and am in love with Any Rand!
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