Rand Quotes - page 2

[P]rogressives seem to think that conservatives distrust the government because of some esoteric philosophical theory, or because we had some weird dream involving Ayn Rand. In reality, it's because we've been told to trust the government before - and we've gotten burned, time and time again. (Jim Geraghty)
Take responsibility for your own happiness, rather than claiming telepathy you don't have (unless you are telepathic) or ascribing to others ugly thoughts you can't verify, and aiming endless, nonspecific blame for your mediocrity at the Trilateral Commission, "the media,” SKULL, the RAND Corporation, the long-disbanded Treemasons, the MAN, the Black Helicopter Legion, or the perennial favorite of paranoiacs, "Them.”. View quote
Malcolm Azania
Rand always says, "Never pass up an opportunity to pass moral judgment.” Well I say: "Look for an opportunity to do something more useful instead.” Nobody was led to virtue by being told he was a scoundrel. View quote
Nathaniel Branden
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. View quote
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
Brodie wasn't inhibited or shocked by matter publicists in and out of RAND flaunted as the most advanced, most modern of developments. After all, he wasn't ashamed to talk to his colleagues about his psychoanalysis. He was too snugly burrowed in his liberal arts to enjoy the gyrations of simulation. His instruments of research were antiquated: no computers, no interdisciplinary teams, just his noggin, the library, table-talk, and the occasional colloquy. View quote
Bernard Brodie
There have even been outright bad writers blessed by the visitation of a poetic title. Ayn Rand had one with The Fountainhead, and another with Atlas Shrugged: a bit of a mouthful... Yet if those were not two of the worst books ever written - the worst books ever written don't even get published - they were certainly among the worst books ever to be taken seriously. View quote
John Galt
Ayn Rand is a stupid piece of shit! View quote
Julia Roberts
I wanna read just one, slight sentence from the presidential oath. "...and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Mister Bush did not keep his oath when he swore to the American people. Mister Obama has not keep his oath when he swore to the American people. But the man I'm gonna introduce now, if given that chance, will keep his word to the American people, and that is the Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul. View quote
Rand Paul
I'm extremely proud to be endorsed by Senator Rand Paul, the most conservative Senator in the U.S. Congress. View quote
Rand Paul
One of the mistakes that Rand makes is that after she condemns a belief or an action, she goes on to tell you the psychology of the person who did it, as if she knows. I focus my judgment on the action and not on the person. My primary interest is: do I admire or dislike this behavior? And there, judgment is important for me. People often attribute all kinds of things to another person, without ever knowing where that person's coming from. Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative. View quote
Nathaniel Branden