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But a “moral commandment” is a contradiction in terms.
The moral is the chosen, not the forced;
the understood, not the obeyed.
The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
~Ayn Rand
"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve—Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man’s virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride..."
"The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men. This includes the whole sphere of his creative faculty, his thinking, his work. But it does notinclude the sphere of the gangster, the altruist and the dictator.
"A man thinks and works alone.
A man cannot rob, exploit or rule—alone.
Robbery, exploitation and ruling presuppose victims.
Rulers of men are not egoists. They create nothing. They exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter..." ~Ayn Rand on Selfishness
"The necessary consequence of man’s right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative..."
~ Ayn Rand, "The Nature of Government," The Virtue of Selfishness, 108
"Just as an individual has the right of self-defense, so has a free country if attacked. But this does not give its government the right to draft men into military service—which is the most blatantly statist violation of a man’s right to his own life..." ~ Ayn Rand, "The Roots of War," For the New Intellectual, 40
"The new intellectuals now should be those men who will stand up for two fundamental values.
The value of their own life, of their alienable rights, of their self esteem, their independence and the value of a non coercive free society in which men do not use force against one another."
~Ayn Rand
"Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking man."
~ The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey
"The fountainhead: the words of Ellsworth Toohey:
"If you learn how to rule one single man's soul you can get the rest of man kind."
There are many ways here's one:
- Make man feel small
- Make him feel guilty
- Kill his aspiration and his integrity
- Preach selflessness
- Tell man he must live for others
- Tell men altruism is the idea
Not a single one of them has ever achieved it and not a single one ever will.
Man realizes he is incapable of what he has accepted as the noblest virtue and it gives him a sense of:
- guilt
- of sin
- of his own basic unworthiness,
You got him. He'll be glad to obey, because he can't trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean that's one way.
Here's another:
Kill man's sense of values, kill his capacity to recognize greatness, or to achieve it, don't deny the conception of greatness, destroy it from within.
Laughter is an instrument of human joy, learn to use it as a weapon of destruction, turn it into a sneer, don't let anything remain sacred in a man's soul and his soul won't be sacred to him.
"Kill reverence and you have killed the hero in man."
Here's another way: this is most important
Don't allow men to be happy, happiness is self contained and self sufficient. Happy men have no time and use for you. Happy men are free men so kill their joy in living, take away whatever is dear or important to them, make them feel that the mere fact of a personal desire is evil.
Bring them to a state where saying "I Want" is no longer a natural right, but a shameful admission.
Altruism is a great help in this. Everything enjoyable from sex, to ambition, to the profit motive is considered depraved or sinful.
Just prove that a thing makes man happy and you have damned it. That's how far we have come. We have tied happiness to guilt and we've got mankind by the throat
You must tell people that they'll achieve a superior kind of happiness by giving up everything that makes them happy. That's the oldest one of all.
It stands to reason that where there's a sacrifice, there is someone collecting sacrificial offerings.
Where there is service, there is someone being served.
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters and intends to be the master.
I said it stands to reason, do you see? Men have a weapon against you, reason, so you must be very sure to take it away from them.
Cut the props from under it but be careful, never deny anything outright, just say that, reason is limited, that there is something above it. What, oh you don't have to be too clear about it, you tell him he must not try to think, he must feel, he must believe, suspend reason and you play it deuces wild. Anything goes, in any manner you wish, whenever you need it, you've got him."
"Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking men."
"Any battle for freedom past, or present had enormous risks involved."
~Onkar Ghate
"What we are trying to do, is bring a moral dimension to policy and political issues. Our focus is on the positive. We are about the issue of "Justice" for a group or class of people that have never been acknowledged as good or moral. A focus on justice requires both what is bad, evil that has to be opposed, to achieve justice you have to focus on this. Then a positive of what you advocate for and look up to. Most major causes in history seemed discouraging. - The Revolution and Declaring Independence - The Abolitionist - Slavery - Women's Suffrage - Civil Rights - Gay Pride - Businessmen All of these at the outset looked like hopeless causes. They were subject to injustice and declared they would not put up with it anymore. Would not accept this anymore. We have to much self-esteem to put up with it. We demand something better and this is what a fight for freedom looks like. We are trying to get the better people in the world to understand and what is needed to fight injustice. In order to combat this you need to stand up and name the injustice and frame it in a positive. There is a major element of what is needed in fighting injustice and that is naming the injustice in the context of a positive. This is what a fight for freedom and liberty would be. Demand Freedom, Justice and Civil Rights. If you make that kind of stand it is possible to succeed." ~ Onkar Ghate
"Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud—that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee—that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling—that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others..."
“It may be true for you, but it’s not true for me.”
~ Ayn Rand
"What is the meaning of the concept “truth”? Truth is the recognition of reality. (This is known as the correspondence theory of truth.)
"The same thing cannot be true and untrue
at the same time and in the same respect."
~ Ayn Rand
That catch phrase, therefore, means: A. That the Law of Identity is invalid; B. That there is no objectively perceivable reality, only some indeterminate flux which is nothing in particular, i.e., that there is no reality (in which case, there can be no such thing as truth); or
C. That the two debaters perceive two different universes (in which case, no debate is possible). (The purpose of the catch phrase is the destruction of objectivity.)"... ~ Found at the Ayn Rand Lexicon
"The term“interests” is a wide abstraction that covers the entire field of ethics.
A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his desires depend on his values—and, for a rational man, his values depend on the judgment of his mind.
Desires (or feelings or emotions or wishes or whims) are not tools of cognition; they are not a valid standard of value, nor a valid criterion of man’s interests."....
"The mere fact that a man desires something
does not constitute a proof that the object of his desire isgood,
nor that its achievement is actually to his interest."
"Now observe, on the above example [the definition of “man”], the process of determining an essential characteristic: the rule of fundamentality. When a given group of existents has more than one characteristic distinguishing it from other existents, man must observe the relationships among these various characteristics and discover the one on which all the others (or the greatest number of others) depend, i.e., the fundamental characteristic without which the others would not be possible. This fundamental characteristic is the essential distinguishing characteristic of the existents involved, and the proper defining characteristic of the concept.
Metaphysically, a fundamental characteristic is that distinctive characteristic which makes the greatest number of others possible; epistemologically, it is the one that explains the greatest number of others.
For instance, one could observe that man is the only animal who speaks English, wears wristwatches, flies airplanes, manufactures lipstick, studies geometry, reads newspapers, writes poems, darns socks, etc. None of these is an essential characteristic: none of them explains the others; none of them applies to all men; omit any or all of them, assume a man who has never done any of these things, and he will still be a man. But observe that all these activities (and innumerable others) require a conceptual grasp of reality, that an animal would not be able to understand them, that they are the expressions and consequences of man’s rational faculty, that an organism without that faculty would not be a man—and you will know why man’s rational facultyis his essential distinguishing and defining characteristic..."
"“Character” means a man’s nature or identity insofar as this is shaped by the moral values he accepts and automatizes. By “moral values” I mean values which are volitionally chosen, and which are fundamental, i.e., shape the whole course of a man’s action, not merely a specialized, delimited area of his life . . . . So a man’s character is, in effect, his moral essence—his self-made identity as expressed in the principles he lives by..."
"What is morality, or ethics? It is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. Ethics, as a science, deals with discovering and defining such a code..."
If one knows that the good is objective—i.e., determined by the nature of reality, but to be discovered by man’s mind—one knows that an attempt to achieve the good by physical force is a monstrous contradictionwhich negates morality at its root by destroying man’s capacity to recognize the good, i.e., his capacity to value.
Force invalidates and paralyzes a man’s judgment, demanding that he act against it, thus rendering him morally impotent.
A value which one is forced to accept at the price of surrendering one’s mind, is not a value to anyone; the forcibly mindless can neither judge nor choose nor value.
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture galleryat the price of cutting out his eyes. Values cannot exist (cannot be valued) outside the full context of a man’s life, needs, goals and knowledge.
The key concept, in the formation of a sense of life, is the term “important.” It is a concept that belongs to the realm of values, since it implies an answer to the question: Important—to whom? Yet its meaning is different from that of moral values. “Important” does not necessarily mean “good.” It means “a quality, character or standing such as to entitle to attention or consideration” (The American College Dictionary). What, in a fundamental sense, is entitled to one’s attention or consideration? Reality.
“Important”—in its essential meaning, as distinguished from its more limited and superficial uses—is a metaphysical term. It pertains to that aspect of metaphysics which serves as a bridge between metaphysics and ethics: to a fundamental view of man’s nature. That view involves the answers to such questions as whether the universe is knowable or not, whether man has the power of choice or not, whether he can achieve his goals in life or not. The answers to such questions are “metaphysical value-judgments,” since they form the base of ethics.
It is only those values which he regards or grows to regard as “important,” those which represent his implicit view of reality, that remain in a man’s subconscious and form his sense of life.
I will ask you to project the look on a child’s face when he grasps the answer to some problem he has been striving to understand. It is a radiant look of joy, of liberation, almost of triumph, which is unself-conscious, yet self-assertive, and its radiance seems to spread in two directions: outward, as an illumination of the world—inward, as the first spark of what is to become the fire of anearned pride. If you have seen this look, or experienced it, you know that if there is such a concept as “sacred”—meaning: the best, the highest possible to man—this look is the sacred, the not-to-be-betrayed, the not-to-be-sacrificed for anything or anyone.
Thinking is a delicate, difficult process, which man cannot perform unless knowledge is his goal, logic is his method, and the judgment of his mind is his guiding absolute. Thought requires selfishness, the fundamental selfishness of a rational faculty that places nothing above the integrity of its own function.
A man cannot think if he places something—anything—above his perceptionof reality. He cannot follow the evidence unswervingly or uphold his conclusions intransigently, while regarding compliance with other men as his moral imperative, self-abasement as his highest virtue, and sacrifice as his primary duty. He cannot use his brain while surrendering his sovereignty over it, i.e., while accepting his neighbors as its owner and term-setter.
The intensity of a process of thought and of the intellectual effort required varies according to the scope of its content; it varies when one grasps the concept “table” or the concept “justice,” when one grasps that 2 + 2 = 4 or that e = mc2.
What does it mean, to act on whim? It means that a man acts like a zombie, without any knowledge of what he deals with, what he wants to accomplish, or what motivates him. It means that a man acts in a state of temporary insanity. Is this what you call juicy or colorful? I think the only juice that can come out of such a situation is blood. To act against the facts of reality can result only in destruction. ~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon
In a free society, the “rights” of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary, individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking.
Every legitimate group undertaking is based on the participants’ right of free association and free trade. (By “legitimate,” I mean: noncriminal and freely formed, that is, a group which no one was forced to join.)
I quote from Galt’s speech: “Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice—and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man—by choice; he has to hold his life as a value—by choice; he has to learn to sustain it—by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues—by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.” ~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon
A central purpose serves to integrate all the other concerns of a man’s life. It establishes the hierarchy, the relative importance, of his values, it saves him from pointless inner conflicts, it permits him to enjoy life on a wide scale and to carry that enjoyment into any area open to his mind; whereas a man without a purpose is lost in chaos. He does not know what his values are. He does not know how to judge. He cannot tell what is or is not important to him, and, therefore, he drifts helplessly at the mercy of any chance stimulus or any whim of the moment. He can enjoy nothing. He spends his life searching for some value which he will never find . . . .
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose—a productive purpose . . . . The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others. That is not the same thing as a productive or creative purpose. - Found @ Ayn Rand Lexicon
but has to act, acts to destroy others. ~ Ayn Rand
Consider the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the brutality, the slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter perpetrated by dictatorships. Yet this is what today’s alleged peace-lovers are willing to advocate or tolerate—in the name of love for humanity.
Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think—not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict “It is.” Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say “It is,” you are refusing to say “I am.” By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: “Who am I to know?” he is declaring: “Who am I to live?”
It is not any crime you have ever committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors or flaws, but the blank-outby which you attempt to evade them—it is not any sort of Original Sin or unknown prenatal deficiency, but the knowledge and fact of your basic default, of suspending your mind, of refusing to think. Fear and guilt are your chronic emotions, they are real and you do deserve them, but they don’t come from the superficial reasons you invent to disguise their cause, not from your “selfishness,” weakness or ignorance, but from a real and basic threat to your existence:fear, because you have abandoned your weapon of survival,guilt, because you know you have done it volitionally.
Do not confuse appeasement with tactfulness or generosity. Appeasement is not consideration for the feelings of others, it is consideration for and compliance with the unjust, irrational and evil feelings of others. It is a policy of exempting the emotions of others from moral judgment, and of willingness to sacrifice innocent, virtuous victims to the evil malice of such emotions.
