Ayn Rand Quotes About Recognition

• Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.225, Penguin

• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

• Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Recognition

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

• Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Facts, Recognition

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

• Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Recognition, Individual

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.17, Penguin

• the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Anger, People

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.510, Penguin

• Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Acceptance, Productive Work, Facts

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.963, Penguin

• Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Thinking, Live Your Life

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

• Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

  Ayn Rand

  Pride, Men, Facts

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

• Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Integrity, Fake

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

• Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Honesty, Cash

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

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