The 20 Best Quotes From Ayn Rand

Townhall.com ^ | July 20, 2012 | John Hawkins

[Tenacious 1]

Well, no, actually. I did so at length, and, as I said, posted them. If you want to read them, dig them up.

That sounds pretty lazy to me. Please post a link so we may all be enlightened with your intellectual opinions. Otherwise, your contribution here and value to this discussion is worthless.

[Tenacious 1]

Douchebag:

An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intellegence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.

[the invisib1e hand]

That sounds pretty lazy to me. Please post a link so we may all be enlightened with your intellectual opinions. Otherwise, your contribution here and value to this discussion is worthless

I think an opinion can be posted without a bibliography. I had to do my own homework and come to my own conclusions. The "lazy" one is the one who demands to be spoonfed other people's thoughts. Anyway, as was already stated, "'nuff said."

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Should've really been the invisible poster on this thread.

Ayn Rand might not be your cup of tea, but there's no need to be a self-aggrandizing delta bravo about it, especially when you don't even back yourself up.

[CSM]

tih’s law (#1048): it is possible to discern the credibility of a cause by discerning the credibility of its critics.

[Stat-boy]

“There are a number of things I don’t approve of about Ayn Rand—first of all that her objectivist philosophy requires atheism.”

Exactly. Many Christians love Ayn Rand while completely disagreeing with her on certain key issues.

I like to think of it this way: On federal policy and government, I am at least 95 percent in agreement with Rand, except that I am pro life. In particular, it’s scary to read bits of Atlas Shrugged in light of the current administration’s addition to regulation, vague statues, extraordinary power to government and quasi-government employees, etc.

On local government, I am closer to 80 percent in agreement.

For my personal relationships, I am about 50 percent in agreement, maybe less.

On my relationship with God, I have zero agreement.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Inevitably, Rand's detractors are individuals who think their favorite form of tyranny is OK. :)

[Tenacious 1]

...but there's no need to be a self-aggrandizing delta bravo about it,...

:o)

I have a policy about name calling. So I will refrain from calling that arrogant, presumptious douchebag an a$$hat.

[originalbuckeye]

Bookmark

[I see my hands]

You're right. And just as inevitably they will suffer the consequences of their deep rooted evil.

[E Rocc]

Francisco D’Anconia’s retort about the “aristocracy of pull” is the best line she ever wrote.

[ansel12]

What is your source for that Clarence Thomas quote?

[Lurker]

and does it with a messianic hero.

So does Judaism.

Idiot.

[goat granny]

The best one comes from the bible......he who does not work, does not eat......

[the invisib1e hand]

So does Judaism.

ummm...Judiasm is a religion, isn't it? Be pretty bizarre if it claimed that god is a myth, no?

Idiot.

indeed.

[r-q-tek86]

Ping

[South40]

What is your source for that Clarence Thomas quote?

The quote was taken from a 1998 meeting of the National Bar Association wherein Thomas addressed black lawyers.

Here is one source though it is worded slightly differently.

Here is another.

[Brad from Tennessee]

What is the sound of an invisible hand and a visible clapping?

[AlanGreenSpam]

I really like this one because I hadn’t thought if it in those terms, so this quote provides us good ammo:

-—19) “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

[ansel12]

"I refuse to have my views dictated to me as if I were an intellectual slave."~Justice Clarence Thomas

Is this the actual quote? "but rather to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as if I were an intellectual slave because I'm black."

I wanted to use what you claimed as a Clarence Thomas quote but when I searched for verification of it, all I could find was your made up one, and that you have been trying to create it here at FR for 7 years worth of posts.

You can't just make up quotes like that.