Ayn Rand Quotes About Fighting

• 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

• [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Fighting

• Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Happy, Integrity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.220, Penguin

• 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”

• Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Pride, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

• Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Future, Fighting

  "The Romantic Manifesto". Book by Ayn Rand, 1969.

• We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base: irrationalism. We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something--and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason and a view of man as a rational being.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.201, Penguin

• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

• 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

• For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Son, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

• It's because...you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met--yours and mine--they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Roots, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.106, 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

• In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Order, Issues

  Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

• I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Atheist, Mean, Fighting

• What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Ideas, Charity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

• For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Numbers, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.49, Xist Publishing

• My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Helping Others, Simple

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

• The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Fighting, Individualism

  "Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

• When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Men, Support

  Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974.

• It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Truth, Freedom

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.224, Penguin

• If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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