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− | * A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, *not* by the desire to beat others. | + | * A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, *not* by the desire to beat others. - A Rand |
− | * All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations. | + | * All philosophical [[Mensonge|con]] games count on your using words as vague approximations. - A Rand |
* An attempt to achieve the good by [[Coercition|force]] is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. - Ayn Rand | * An attempt to achieve the good by [[Coercition|force]] is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. - Ayn Rand | ||
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* All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative - A Rand | * All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative - A Rand | ||
− | * Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. | + | * Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. - A Rand |
− | * Any attempt to act for the 'good of others' is a piece of vicious impertinence. | + | * Any attempt to act for the 'good of others' is a piece of vicious impertinence. - A Rand |
− | * A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. | + | * A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. - A Rand |
* A refusal to [[Vote|vote]] represents a definite expression of political opinion, a rejection of the candidates & the programs offered. - A Rand | * A refusal to [[Vote|vote]] represents a definite expression of political opinion, a rejection of the candidates & the programs offered. - A Rand | ||
− | * Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. | + | * Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - A Rand |
− | * Credit is not ... a magic piece of paper that reverses cause and effect, and transforms consumption into a source of production. | + | * Credit is not ... a magic piece of paper that reverses cause and effect, and transforms consumption into a source of production. - A Rand |
* Dependence breeds hatred. only [[Liberté_Citations|free]] men can afford to be benevolent. only [[Liberté_Citations|free]] men can love and respect one another. - Ayn Rand | * Dependence breeds hatred. only [[Liberté_Citations|free]] men can afford to be benevolent. only [[Liberté_Citations|free]] men can love and respect one another. - Ayn Rand | ||
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* [[Liberté_Citations|Freedom]], in a political context ... means [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]] from the [[Coercition|coercive]] power of the state---and nothing else. - Ayn Rand | * [[Liberté_Citations|Freedom]], in a political context ... means [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]] from the [[Coercition|coercive]] power of the state---and nothing else. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * Government was set to protect man from criminals, and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. | + | * Government was set to protect man from criminals, and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. - A Rand |
− | * Ideas are the meaning of life, the only things that make a human life, as distinguished from an animal one. | + | * Ideas are the meaning of life, the only things that make a human life, as distinguished from an animal one. - A Rand |
− | * if men want to oppose [[war]], it is *statism* that they must oppose | + | * if men want to oppose [[war]], it is *statism* that they must oppose - A Rand |
− | * If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. | + | * If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. - A Rand |
* In a civilized society, [[Coercition|force]] may be used only in retaliation, and only against those who initiate its use. - Ayn Rand | * In a civilized society, [[Coercition|force]] may be used only in retaliation, and only against those who initiate its use. - Ayn Rand | ||
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* In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to [[Penser|think]] or to evade that effort. - Ayn Rand | * In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to [[Penser|think]] or to evade that effort. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. | + | * In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. - A Rand |
− | * Inflation is a man-made scourge, made possible by the fact that most men do not understand it. | + | * Inflation is a man-made scourge, made possible by the fact that most men do not understand it. - A Rand |
* Instead of prosperity, [[Socialisme|socialism]] has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. - Ayn Rand | * Instead of prosperity, [[Socialisme|socialism]] has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible. | + | * In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible. - A Rand |
* I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs - A Rand | * I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs - A Rand | ||
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* I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. - A Rand | * I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. - A Rand | ||
− | * Joy is not the absence of pain. | + | * Joy is not the absence of pain. - A Rand |
* Life is a value to be bought and ... [[Penser|thinking]] is the only coin noble enough to buy it. - Ayn Rand | * Life is a value to be bought and ... [[Penser|thinking]] is the only coin noble enough to buy it. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. | + | * Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. - A Rand |
* Man is not a lone wolf and he is not a social animal. he is a [[Contrat|contractual]] animal. - Ayn Rand | * Man is not a lone wolf and he is not a social animal. he is a [[Contrat|contractual]] animal. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. | + | * Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. - A Rand |
* No mater how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own [[Penser|mind]] that has to acquire it. - Ayn Rand | * No mater how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own [[Penser|mind]] that has to acquire it. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character. | + | * Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character. - A Rand |
− | * Once men have accepted the idea of self-sacrifice as the good, they have accepted the idea of sacrificing others, too. | + | * Once men have accepted the idea of self-sacrifice as the good, they have accepted the idea of sacrificing others, too. - A Rand |
− | * One cannot force men -- or nations -- to live as human beings if they prefer to be swine in a collectivist pig pen. | + | * One cannot force men -- or nations -- to live as human beings if they prefer to be swine in a collectivist pig pen. - A Rand |
− | * One of the most dangerous things a man can do is to surrender his moral autonomy to others. | + | * One of the most dangerous things a man can do is to surrender his moral autonomy to others. - A Rand |
− | * One should never attempt to deprive a man of the consequences of his actions, good or evil | + | * One should never attempt to deprive a man of the consequences of his actions, good or evil - A Rand |
− | * Paper [money] is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. | + | * Paper [money] is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. - A Rand |
− | * Paper [money] is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. | + | * Paper [money] is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. - A Rand |
− | * Philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible | + | * Philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible - A Rand |
− | * The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. | + | * The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. - A Rand |
− | * The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. the parasite's concern is the conquest of men. | + | * The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. the parasite's concern is the conquest of men. - A Rand |
− | * The creator originates. the parasite borrows. the creator faces nature alone. the parasite faces nature through an intermediary. | + | * The creator originates. the parasite borrows. the creator faces nature alone. the parasite faces nature through an intermediary. - A Rand |
* The degree of a country's [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]] is the degree of its prosperity. - Ayn Rand | * The degree of a country's [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]] is the degree of its prosperity. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The free-enterpriser works for what he gets. The modern american collectivist grabs what he can get away with. | + | * The free-enterpriser works for what he gets. The modern american collectivist grabs what he can get away with. - A Rand |
* The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. (Voir [[Déni]]) - Ayn Rand | * The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. (Voir [[Déni]]) - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation | + | * The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation - A Rand |
* The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone - Ayn Rand | * The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave | + | * The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave - A Rand |
* The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the [[Penser|understood]], not the obeyed. - Ayn Rand | * The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the [[Penser|understood]], not the obeyed. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. | + | * The only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. - A Rand |
− | * The original talent is the rarest thing in the world. | + | * The original talent is the rarest thing in the world. - A Rand |
* The power of production is not the same thing as the power of [[Coercition|coercion]] by physical force. - Ayn Rand | * The power of production is not the same thing as the power of [[Coercition|coercion]] by physical force. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The power that determines the establishment, the changes, the evolution, and the destruction of social systems is philosophy | + | * The power that determines the establishment, the changes, the evolution, and the destruction of social systems is philosophy - A Rand |
* The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of [[Coercition|physical force]] from social relationships - Ayn Rand | * The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of [[Coercition|physical force]] from social relationships - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * The protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government | + | * The protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government - A Rand |
− | * The smallest minority on earth is the individual. | + | * The smallest minority on earth is the individual. - A Rand |
* The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your [[Penser|mind]] to the mind of another. - Ayn Rand | * The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your [[Penser|mind]] to the mind of another. - Ayn Rand | ||
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* There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to [[Penser|think]] - A Rand | * There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to [[Penser|think]] - A Rand | ||
− | * There are two potential violators of man's rights: the criminals and the government. | + | * There are two potential violators of man's rights: the criminals and the government. - A Rand |
− | * There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win. | + | * There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win. - A Rand |
− | * There is only one standard of justice in the field of economics: the verdict of a free market. | + | * There is only one standard of justice in the field of economics: the verdict of a free market. - A Rand |
− | * There's only one form of human depravity, the man without a purpose. | + | * There's only one form of human depravity, the man without a purpose. - A Rand |
* [[Penser|Thinking]] men cannot be ruled. - Ayn Rand | * [[Penser|Thinking]] men cannot be ruled. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * To love the ideal and also those who betray it, is only to betray the ideal. | + | * To love the ideal and also those who betray it, is only to betray the ideal. - A Rand |
− | * Tribalism is a product of fear, and fear is the dominant emotion of any person, culture or society that rejects | + | * Tribalism is a product of fear, and fear is the dominant emotion of any person, culture or society that rejects reason. - A Rand |
− | * We must learn to reject the conception that the common good is served by the abolition of individual rights. | + | * We must learn to reject the conception that the common good is served by the abolition of individual rights. - A Rand |
− | * What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? | + | * What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing ? - A Rand |
− | * What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work. | + | * What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work. - A Rand |
* When men fight a [[war]] for [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]], they are fighting for their lives. - Ayn Rand | * When men fight a [[war]] for [[Liberté_Citations|freedom]], they are fighting for their lives. - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * When men live by trade, it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability. | + | * When men live by trade, it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability. - A Rand |
− | * When personal judgment is inoperative or forbidden, men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice. | + | * When personal judgment is inoperative or forbidden, men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice. - A Rand |
− | * When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. | + | * When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. - A Rand |
* “[W]hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand | * “[W]hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand | ||
− | * Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute" the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right" to treat human beings as chattel. | + | * Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute" the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right" to treat human beings as chattel. - A Rand |
− | * You cannot convert others to your ideas, if you have no consistent, logical arguments and proofs to offer. | + | * You cannot convert others to your ideas, if you have no consistent, logical arguments and proofs to offer. - A Rand |
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- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
- http://www.wikiberal.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
- http://www.libertas.co/wiki/Ayn_Rand
- 02/02/1905 - 06/03/1982
Citations
- "La différence entre un Etat-providence et un Etat totalitaire est une question de temps" - Ayn Rand
- Le racisme est la forme la plus abjecte et la plus brutalement primitive du collectivisme. - Ayn Rand, La vertu d'égoïsme
- "Les idées nauséabondes ne sont dangereuses qu'en l'absence d'hommes pour en défendre de meilleures." - Ayn Rand
- "Ne laisse pas périr ce héros qui habite ton âme dans les regrets frustrés d’une vie que tu aurais méritée, mais que tu n’as jamais pu atteindre." - Ayn Rand
Quotes
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, *not* by the desire to beat others. - A Rand
- All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations. - A Rand
- An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. - Ayn Rand
- All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative - A Rand
- Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. - A Rand
- Any attempt to act for the 'good of others' is a piece of vicious impertinence. - A Rand
- A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. - A Rand
- A refusal to vote represents a definite expression of political opinion, a rejection of the candidates & the programs offered. - A Rand
- Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - A Rand
- Credit is not ... a magic piece of paper that reverses cause and effect, and transforms consumption into a source of production. - A Rand
- Dependence breeds hatred. only free men can afford to be benevolent. only free men can love and respect one another. - Ayn Rand
- Freedom, in a political context ... means freedom from the coercive power of the state---and nothing else. - Ayn Rand
- Government was set to protect man from criminals, and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. - A Rand
- Ideas are the meaning of life, the only things that make a human life, as distinguished from an animal one. - A Rand
- if men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose - A Rand
- If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. - A Rand
- In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation, and only against those who initiate its use. - Ayn Rand
- In any hour and issue of his life, man is free to think or to evade that effort. - Ayn Rand
- In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. - A Rand
- Inflation is a man-made scourge, made possible by the fact that most men do not understand it. - A Rand
- Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. - Ayn Rand
- In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible. - A Rand
- I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs - A Rand
- I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. - A Rand
- Joy is not the absence of pain. - A Rand
- Life is a value to be bought and ... thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. - Ayn Rand
- Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. - A Rand
- Man is not a lone wolf and he is not a social animal. he is a contractual animal. - Ayn Rand
- Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. - A Rand
- No mater how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. - Ayn Rand
- Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character. - A Rand
- Once men have accepted the idea of self-sacrifice as the good, they have accepted the idea of sacrificing others, too. - A Rand
- One cannot force men -- or nations -- to live as human beings if they prefer to be swine in a collectivist pig pen. - A Rand
- One of the most dangerous things a man can do is to surrender his moral autonomy to others. - A Rand
- One should never attempt to deprive a man of the consequences of his actions, good or evil - A Rand
- Paper [money] is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. - A Rand
- Paper [money] is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. - A Rand
- Philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible - A Rand
- The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. - A Rand
- The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. the parasite's concern is the conquest of men. - A Rand
- The creator originates. the parasite borrows. the creator faces nature alone. the parasite faces nature through an intermediary. - A Rand
- The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity. - Ayn Rand
- The free-enterpriser works for what he gets. The modern american collectivist grabs what he can get away with. - A Rand
- The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. (Voir Déni) - Ayn Rand
- The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation - A Rand
- The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone - Ayn Rand
- The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave - A Rand
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. - Ayn Rand
- The only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. - A Rand
- The original talent is the rarest thing in the world. - A Rand
- The power of production is not the same thing as the power of coercion by physical force. - Ayn Rand
- The power that determines the establishment, the changes, the evolution, and the destruction of social systems is philosophy - A Rand
- The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships - Ayn Rand
- The protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government - A Rand
- The smallest minority on earth is the individual. - A Rand
- The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another. - Ayn Rand
- There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think - A Rand
- There are two potential violators of man's rights: the criminals and the government. - A Rand
- There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win. - A Rand
- There is only one standard of justice in the field of economics: the verdict of a free market. - A Rand
- There's only one form of human depravity, the man without a purpose. - A Rand
- Thinking men cannot be ruled. - Ayn Rand
- To love the ideal and also those who betray it, is only to betray the ideal. - A Rand
- Tribalism is a product of fear, and fear is the dominant emotion of any person, culture or society that rejects reason. - A Rand
- We must learn to reject the conception that the common good is served by the abolition of individual rights. - A Rand
- What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing ? - A Rand
- What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work. - A Rand
- When men live by trade, it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability. - A Rand
- When personal judgment is inoperative or forbidden, men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice. - A Rand
- When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. - A Rand
- “[W]hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand
- Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute" the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right" to treat human beings as chattel. - A Rand
- You cannot convert others to your ideas, if you have no consistent, logical arguments and proofs to offer. - A Rand
Articles connexes
Liens externes
- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1249 Anthem (livre)
- http://www.catallaxia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
- http://nicomaque.blogspot.fr/p/ayn-rand-et.html
- http://www.contrepoints.org/2011/09/22/44626-la-greve-oeuvre-matricielle-dune-generation-dadeptes article critique
- "Réponse à Télérama sur Ayn Rand" http://www.contrepoints.org/2012/10/26/102148-reponse-a-telerama-sur-ayn-rand
- "Retour sur Ayn Rand : d’Atlas shrugged à la grève libérale" http://www.contrepoints.org/2012/03/22/74171-retour-sur-ayn-rand-datlas-shrugged-a-la-greve-liberale
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