“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.”
Ayn Rand (verified)
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Primary source)
The Ayn Rand Lexicon is a reference guide to the philosophy of Objectivism. Compiled from Ayn Rand’s extensive writings, it presents her views on hundreds of topics—from philosophy and politics to art and psychology—in an alphabetical, easy-to-browse format.
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“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)