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“When men give up reason and freedom, the vacuum is filled by faith and force.” —Ayn Rand
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“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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“All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.” —Ayn Rand
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“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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“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” —Robert Heinlein
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“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” —Ayn Rand
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A Rabbi, a Christian, and two Objectivists walk onto a stage . . . to discuss the future of classical liberalism.
They agree on its core tenets—the sovereignty of the individual; his need for freedom to think, act, and speak in accordance with his judgment; the need for
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“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”—Ayn Rand
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“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”—Ayn Rand
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“All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations.” —Ayn Rand
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“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
—Ayn Rand
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Happy birthday Ayn Rand!
Ayn Rand escaped communism, came to the U.S. and built her career as the author of the bestselling novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead while developing her philosophy of Objectivism.
Listen to The Hero Show on Ayn Rand👇
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“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
—Ayn Rand
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“Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.” —Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
—John Galt
#AtlasShrugged
#GaltsGulch
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“I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need . . . I am a man who does not exist for others.”
—Howard Roark
#AynRand
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“Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent and radical alternative.” —Ayn Rand
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What is DEI? What is wrong with these ideas? And what should replace them?
We'll be discussing these questions and more at LevelUp 2024 with
@realchrisrufo
,
@wil_da_beast630
,
@CraigBiddle
, and Eric Daniels.
Learn more here:
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“We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something.” —Ayn Rand
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“Diversity, equity and inclusion actually means homogeneity, inequality, and exclusion.”
-
@andrewdoyle_com
#LevelUpOSI
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“You are not your race, or gender, or social class. You are you. You are an individual. You have a mind. And your mind is your means of thinking, understanding, choosing values, and coming to conclusions.”—
@CraigBiddle
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How important is it to attend college?
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“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” —Ayn Rand
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“The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the conquest of men.” —Howard Roark
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“Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes, or destroys it is the evil.” —Ayn Rand
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“The most selfish of all things is the independent mind that recognizes no authority higher than its own and no value higher than its judgment of truth.” —Ayn Rand
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“There is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.” —Ayn Rand
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“Observe also the intensity, the austere, the unsmiling seriousness with which an infant watches the world around him. (If you ever find, in an adult, that degree of seriousness about reality, you will have found a great man.)”
—Ayn Rand
#AynRand
#Greatness
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This is what altruism demands we sacrifice.
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“The only cardinal sin is the denial or suspension of one’s reason—the refusal to face reality, identify it and make rational connections.” —Ayn Rand
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“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.” —Ayn Rand
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“To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
—Ayn Rand
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“If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society—you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.”
—Ayn Rand
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"The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men."
—Howard Roark
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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” —Thomas Jefferson
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“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” —Ayn Rand
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“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I.’” —Howard Roark
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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” —John Adams
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“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” —Ludwig von Mises
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“All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”
—Ayn Rand
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“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.” —Frédéric Bastiat
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“The stars may be marvelous, but not as marvelous as the mind of man that comprehended them.”
—Martin Luther King Jr
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“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.” —Ludwig von Mises
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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” —Thomas Paine
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“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
—Margaret Thatcher
#MargaretThatcher
#America
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“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.” —Victor Hugo
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“The root of the whole modern disaster is philosophical and moral. People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.” —Ayn Rand
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” —Frederick Douglass
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“To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.” —Ayn Rand
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As wars in Israel & Ukraine rage on, what should guide our thinking? Who’s guilty, who’s innocent, & who’s responsible for civilian deaths?
Join
@kiyahwillis
as she applies moral principles to these issues.
Learn more about our program & scholarships at
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“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” —Robert Heinlein
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“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.”
—Ayn Rand
#AynRand
#Rationality
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“You are not your race, or gender, or social class. You are you. You are an individual. You have a mind. And your mind is your means of thinking, understanding, choosing values, and coming to conclusions.”
—
@CraigBiddle
#Individualism
#Rationality
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“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.” —Ayn Rand
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The degree of a country’s freedom is the degree of its prosperity. —Ayn Rand
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Let's celebrate our differences and appreciate the unique traits that make us who we are.
@growingtotruth
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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” —Ayn Rand
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“The most formidable weapon, against errors of every kind, is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”
—Thomas Paine
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“The most formidable weapon, against errors of every kind, is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.” —Thomas Paine
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“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
—Ludwig von Mises
#LudwigVonMises
#Individualism
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Regarding Kiyah Willis, Ely Lassman, and King’s College
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