“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
– Francisco d’Anconia in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part I, Chapter VII
Posts Tagged as ‘Atlas Shrugged’
July 22, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on Contradictions
July 10, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on America
“…the rebirth … of the world … has to start here, in the United States. This country was the only country in history born, not of chance and blind tribal warfare, but as a rational product of man’s mind. This country was built on the supremacy of reason — and, for one magnificent century, it [...]
July 10, 2009
Ragnar Danneskjöld on Robin Hood
“It is said that [Robin Hood] fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, [...]
July 10, 2009
Floyd Ferris on Genius
“Genius is a superstition… There’s no such thing as the intellect. A man’s brain is a social product. A sum of influences that he’s picked up from those around him. Nobody invents anything, he merely reflects what’s floating in the social atmosphere. A genius is an intellectual scavenger and a greedy hoarder of the ideas [...]
July 10, 2009
Hank Rearden on Character
“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”
– Hank Rearden in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter IV
July 10, 2009
Hank Rearden on Justice
“A prisoner brought to trial can defend himself only if there is an objective principle of justice recognized by his judges, a principle upholding his rights, which they may not violate and which he can invoke.”
– Hank Rearden in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter IV
July 10, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on Guilt
“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt…”
– Francisco d’Anconia in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter III
July 10, 2009
Floyd Ferris on Government
“Do you really think that we wont those laws to be observed? … We want them broken. … There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be [...]
July 10, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on the Need to Think
“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”
– Francisco d’Anconia in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter II
July 10, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on Money
“So you think that money is the root of all evil? … Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to [...]
