Galt's Gulch

Daily Quote: Ayn Rand

Posted by awebb 12 years, 2 months ago to Philosophy
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  • Posted by wiggys 12 years, 2 months ago
    I PROUDLY STATE THAT I AM AN ACHEVER AND HAVE EXPERIENCED THE HATRED, DISTAIN ETC OF THOSE BOTH IN MY BUSINESS AND USERS OF PRODUCTS THAT ARE CLAIMED TO BE EQUAL TO MINE. I LET IS ROLL OFF OF MY BACK AS WATER RUNS DOW A DUCKS BACK. I DO NOT APPOLOGIZE FOR ONE ASPECT OF WHAT I HAVE DONE. AYN RAND WAS CORRECT ONE MORE TIME IN HER ASSESSMENT OF WHAT SHE OBSERVED!
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  • Posted by SpiritMatter 12 years, 2 months ago
    Without the Creator there would be no creation.
    Without the creation there would be no creative human minds made in the image of the Creator nor the raw resources to produce a value added product.
    Without the creative mind willing to make the effort to grow in knowledge and understanding and do the work of making a needed or wanted product, there would be no product for the government middleman to take and share with a non-producer.
    Praise rightly goes to the creators and producers of all the things the consumers need and want. He/she rightly deserves to reap what he/she sows.
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  • Posted by Notperfect 12 years, 2 months ago
    Sometimes I do forget. My sin. As an achiever I have to correct myself. I will with or without those who do not want me to. I would rather work together to achieve the greatest. Most times that will not work. As far as charity it comes from within not advertised.
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  • Posted by Stormi 12 years, 2 months ago
    Charity to help one up, but to to weaken is acceptable. Today, we see the rich trying to buy acceptance by donating to any cause that comes along. Locally, we have several town big shots, several lawyers, taking a piece of the illegal drug pie, promoting the trade, and then making token donations to get their mugs in the paper as great people. Reason in honoring people for charitable giving has lost its way.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 12 years, 2 months ago
    I have a problem with this particular quote, though not the underlying sentiment.

    I agree that holding those that loot from others in order to distribute to still others is often held up as virtuous instead of the thief that they really are. But charity itself is not evil. Even AR herself said that she had no problem with an individual that chooses of their own free will to provide charity. She didn't see it as a reason to place them above any other person.

    I also don't think that the world merely shrugs at achievement. Increasingly, it depends on the political philosophy of the individual achiever. Progressive (socialist/collectivist) achievers are held up for great lauds - actors, bankers, industrialists - so long as they tout the party line. Achievers who do not spout those philosophies are scorned and ridiculed. This was less pronounced when Ms. Rand made this quote, but certainly not absent.
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    • Posted by iroseland 12 years, 2 months ago
      from what I have seen achievement these days is not shrugged at, it is actively hated. The achievers who toe the party line are trying to trick the haters into ignoring their success. So far, the appears to mostly work.. Its just sad that anyone would need to approach things that way.
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 12 years, 2 months ago
        I disagree. The "correct" achievers flaunt it openly. Oprah, Soros, Michael Moore, Bill Gates, Jon Stewart, Al Gore (if you can say that he has been successful and not just a looter) - none of them are criticized for their success and "excessive" compensation/wealth. But be a capitalist or libertarian and you are lionized. Even those who otherwise meet the criterion - ethnicity, gender, status as oppressed, such as Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, or Marco Rubio.
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