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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2013, 03:45:42 pm »
It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
— Ayn Rand
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« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2013, 03:54:50 pm »
It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
— Ayn Rand

She's right of course but the thought is FAR from new:

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."

Daniel Webster


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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2013, 03:24:30 pm »
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish — man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish — man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States.
—Ayn Rand
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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2013, 03:56:53 pm »
... if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States.
—Ayn Rand

To bad that it goes so little unused these days!
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2013, 10:32:17 pm »
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury—the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.
- Ayn Rand
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« Reply #30 on: March 12, 2013, 02:15:45 am »
The nation which had once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
Atlas Shrugged - Part 1, Chapter 5
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« Reply #31 on: April 01, 2013, 04:22:31 pm »
"Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that 'the good' was a concept to be defined by a code of moral values and that no man had the right to seek his good through the violation of the rights of another. If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they believe to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it - well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act."

Atlas Shrugged - Part 2, Chapter 3
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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2013, 11:52:24 am »
This is a rather good one, I think...

"They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they’re after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man."
Atlas Shrugged - Part 3, Chapter 7
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« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2013, 01:26:39 am »
Good one for sure, Lando.

BTW have you seen part II of Atlas Shrugged yet?  They are currently starting on part III.....
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« Reply #34 on: April 09, 2013, 09:16:17 pm »
Good one for sure, Lando.

BTW have you seen part II of Atlas Shrugged yet?  They are currently starting on part III.....

I purchased it for my video library but have not yet watched it.  Can't find the time!!  Will let you know...
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« Reply #35 on: April 09, 2013, 09:17:30 pm »
Here is another good one...

"...People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue — a highly intellectual virtue — out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt."
Atlas Shrugged - Part 2, Chapter 1
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« Reply #36 on: April 09, 2013, 09:30:15 pm »
I purchased it for my video library but have not yet watched it.  Can't find the time!!  Will let you know...

Scary how much it mirrors what is taking place.
�The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves.� G Washington July 2, 1776

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« Reply #37 on: April 16, 2013, 11:20:49 am »
"The evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction you give it."
Atlas Shrugged - Part 3, Chapter 7
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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2013, 09:59:15 pm »
Believe it or not, Lando, I've yet to read "Atlas Shrugged", until now...
Just borrowed it from a friend and I'll let you know what I find out...MUD

It can be a bit dark/tedious at times... but well worth it.
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« Reply #39 on: June 04, 2013, 06:03:49 pm »
Aprapos...

“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
Atlas Shrugged Part 3, Chapter 7
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« Reply #40 on: June 05, 2013, 05:47:41 pm »
"What I actually am, Mr. Rearden, is a policeman. It is a policeman's duty to protect men from criminals—criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property—then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman."
Ragnar Danneskjöld to Hank Reardon
Atlas Shrugged - Part 2, Chapter 7
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« Reply #41 on: June 09, 2013, 02:29:49 pm »
The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.
- Ayn Rand
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« Reply #42 on: June 09, 2013, 02:32:13 pm »
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed."
- Ayn Rand
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« Reply #43 on: July 04, 2013, 05:37:01 pm »
"This country—the product of reason—could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic split that divorced man’s soul from his body. It could not live by the mystic doctrine that damned this earth as evil and those who succeeded on earth as depraved. From its start, this country was a threat to the ancient rule of mystics. In the brilliant rocket-explosion of its youth, this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth. It was one or the other: America or mystics. The mystics knew it; you didn’t. You let them infect you with the worship of need—and this country became a giant in body with a mooching midget in place of its soul, while its living soul was driven underground to labor and feed you in silence, unnamed, unhonored, negated, its soul and hero: the industrialist."

Atlas Shrugged - Part 3, Chapter 7
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« Reply #44 on: July 04, 2013, 05:50:31 pm »
Ooooh.....that's a good one, Lando!  :patriot:   

Very fitting today.
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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #45 on: July 04, 2013, 06:27:41 pm »
The movie "Atlas Shrugged - Part II" came out recently and can be viewed on Netflix streaming.

Part I was pretty good, and I'm looking forward to Part II.
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« Reply #46 on: July 04, 2013, 07:33:30 pm »
The movie "Atlas Shrugged - Part II" came out recently and can be viewed on Netflix streaming.

Part I was pretty good, and I'm looking forward to Part II.

Part II was even better... I'm anxious to see III
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Re: Ayn Rand and/or Atlas Shrugged Quotes to ponder
« Reply #47 on: July 04, 2013, 08:04:58 pm »
Just a passing thought but does anyone else think that in some ways Rapunzel reminds you of Dagny Taggart?
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« Reply #48 on: July 04, 2013, 08:06:06 pm »
Ooooh.....that's a good one, Lando!  :patriot:   

Very fitting today.
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« Reply #49 on: July 04, 2013, 08:26:41 pm »
Part II was even better... I'm anxious to see III

I just saw II... yes, it was good.  Part III should be great.
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