Idea Bank

This is a conglomeration of ideas and thoughts that I've collected. Although they aren't individually noted, all thoughts are those of either myself or Ayn Rand. If you agree/disagree or offended by any of these please comment! If they spur any ideas of your own then PLEASE comment

1. The government has a monopoly on use of physical force.
2. Freedom is the absence of coercion.
3. The more rational a society, the less it can be ruled by brute force.
4. Rights must be given up voluntarily, not by force. Superior knowledge does not give the right to reduce freedoms
5. Rome flourished as a republic and fell as an empire. The empire created large government and a welfare state. Barbarians were able to come in and topple the government.
6. If you disagree with a private citizen he can only refuse to do business. If you disagree with the government they can imprison you.
7. Ignorance typically yells louder than truth speaks.
8. Pragmatists are prone to irrational compromise. The would reason, “If somebody wants to bash your skull, ask them to break a leg.”
9. People are afraid to
10. • Make decisions for themselves
11. • Be responsible for their lives/futures.
12. Problem with public radio/tv – they are being funded by taxpayers but get less than 10% of viewer ship. It is only watched by their cliques and is not actually in the public interest.
13. Altruism – Placing the interest of others above your own.. existing for the sake of others.
14. Do not be concerned with giving away or hording things but with a mans right to live and produce.
15. A wealthy man will not stagnate. His self-interest does not lie in consumption but in production in the creative expansion of his mind.
16. The creative happiness of achieving greater and greater control over reality.
17. Independent men won’t produce under tyranny.
18. All knowledge is interconnected – universal freedom must exist for innovation and technology to flourish.
19. You cannot restrict technology you can only destroy it.
20. Advances in medicine came from space exploration.
21. A self made savage is worse than a natural innocent one.
22. Technology is applied science.
23. Freedom is the only “public interest”
24. A mans ideas and actions are not determined by his economic status as a Marxist would claim.
25. Philosophical crimes of the mind crimes cause the crimes death with by the police.
26. Today every part of the population is dependant on government controls.
27. Liberals see men as inherently weak and need to be helped.
28. You can not achieve anything good through evil means.
29. Want anarchy? See: middle ages
30. Capitalists seek to grant power to the individual, libs seek to pull individual rights into a collective.
31. Aristotle: either/or
32. One reason is better than 100 insults
33. If you want to stop the country altogether then abolish profits then we can sink to the level of the rest of the world.
34. When a country does not recognize the rights of its own citizens how can it expect the international community to respect its rights?
35. Passivity and apathy are always on the side of the oppressor.
36. You can’t claim one should respect the rights of Indians when they had no conception of rights or respect for rights.
37. If woman want to be equal and of course they can be, they should achieve it an their own and not as a vicious parasitical pressure group.
38. Once you can compromise and continue that policy it will be increasingly more difficult to recapture your values.
39. When a man lives his own life properly that is the only contribution to mankind he can make.
40. You can not and do not have unchosen obligations; you’re responsible for your own actions.
41. It is not good to help someone who is suffering as a result of his own evil. If you help him, you are sanctioning his immorality, which is evil.
42. You have control only over your own life.
43. Rational decisions benefit mankind although that is not their purpose.
44. If a man can not rise out of poverty in the United States he could not survive in the rest of the world.
45. Individuals must have the courage to form themselves as individuals.
46. “Live Up” to standards do not “live down” to standards.
47. Do not accept your enemy’s ideas and do not compromise
48. Anybody who was ever great, had standards they lived by.
49. Adopting others philosophical ideas are like adopting new laws through scientific research.
50. The more you allow yourself properly to question your premises the firmer they will become.