Ayn Rand Quotes About Enemies

• The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Fighting, Civilization

• Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Fighting, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

• Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

  Ayn Rand

  Enemy, Religion, Mankind

• Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Enemy

• Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are." - John Gault

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

• Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, People, Enemy

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.329, Penguin

• to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Enemy, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.116, Penguin

• ...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Enemy, Reason

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.414, Penguin

• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

• It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Fighting, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

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