Quote by Ayn Rand on Rationality and Reality
“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
Ayn Rand
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Quote by Ayn Rand on Statism, Reason, and Ambition
“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
Quote by Ayn Rand on Principles, Morality, and Truth
“There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.”
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Quote on Distinguishing Thoughts and Emotions
“One must differentiate between one’s thoughts and one’s emotions with full clarity and precision…No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Ayn Rand on Error and Truth
“That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Ayn Rand on Philosophy and Society
“Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Ayn Rand about Dreams and Action
“The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.”
Ayn Rand
Friedrich August von Hayek: Revealing Insights on Freedom and Tyranny
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.”
Friedrich August von Hayek
Edward L. Bernays Quote: The Shocking Truth About Universal Literacy & Propaganda
“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.”
Edward L. Bernays
Hannah Arendt Quotes on Lies, Truth, and Totalitarian Education
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
Hannah Arendt