Ayn Rand Quotes About Today

• The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

  Ayn Rand

  Liberty, Today, Tomorrow

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.8, Penguin

• The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, One Day, Degrees

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Future, Fighting

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

• ...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Goal

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Ambition, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

• Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

  Ayn Rand

  Luck, Today, Talent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

• I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Ambition, Pro Life

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.27, Penguin

• You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.323, Penguin

• In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Dark, Men

• The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

  Ayn Rand

  Success, Men, Years

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.182, Hamilton Books

• Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I

  Ayn Rand

  Today, Said

• Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Russia, Rights

• Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.229, Penguin

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