Erich Fromm Quote on Independent Thinking and Mass Media
“The person who does not think for himself falls prey to the hypnosis of the mass media and the whispers of demagogues.”
Erich Fromm
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Philosophy of Ayn Rand: Man, Happiness, and Reason
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
Ayn Rand
Racism as the Primitive Form of Collectivism – Quote by Ayn Rand
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.”
Ayn Rand
“I Have No Friends” – Quote by Albert Camus
“I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.”
Albert Camus
Quote by Ayn Rand on Common Good and Individual Good
“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Ayn Rand on Freedom and Human Rights
“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Ayn Rand on Communist Party Voting Strategy in 1933
“It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis – with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.”
Ayn Rand
“Whoever Gives Nothing, Has Nothing” – Quote by Albert Camus
“Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.”
Albert Camus
Quote by Ayn Rand: Great men can’t be ruled
“Great men can’t be ruled.”
Ayn Rand
Laissez-faire Capitalism and Individual Rights – Ayn Rand Quote
“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