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"Problems of the future can be solved by mankind because you create them."
-ayn rand

>> No.1565749

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."
-ayn rand

>> No.1565748

Stop starting threads with quotes and nothing else. At least 99% of the time, you don't even understand the shit you're talking about. Please stop posting useless shit.

>> No.1565752

Like nuclear winter!


She was a colossal moron.

>> No.1565758

>>1565746
Got some more good ones for you, Stag

"Democracy is the road to socialism."
-Rand
It's great how she recognizes the rule of the elite in defending the masses from their own barbaric tendencies.

"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."

"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property"

>> No.1565766

I don't like her writing style (lot of tl;dr), but I think Rand was brilliant. Can we just do an Ayn Rand quote thread for a while?

"Our enemy, and the enemy of all America, is the monopolistic government of the United States of America."

>> No.1565767

>>1565758
>Abolish all private property
That's isn't insightful at all. That's what the heart of communism - and marxism - and most if not all of utopian socialism seeks. Conspicuously an concientiously.

>> No.1565779

>>1565767
If you disagree with the Randster, I invite you to tell me how she's wrong. Communism is a simple philosophy that can be summed up in one edict that has never occurred in the whole of human history. More quotes:

"A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."
>a fav for sounding cool

"A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish."

"Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure."

"The religious world is but the reflex of the real world."
>atheist ftw

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>>1565766
You are insane.

>> No.1565787

Stagolee, I know you have more great Rand quotes, GET IN HERE!

"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!"

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
>from Atlas Shrugged, makes sense in context

>> No.1565791

>>1565779
I didn't say she's wrong. I said she's pointing out the obvious about communism.

>> No.1565796

>>1565786
No, you are insane.

I repeat the writings of the most important thinker on class of the past millennium and you call me insane for having a view different from you. Does it not occur to you that your views look to me as unstable as mine look to you? If you evaluate these quotes objectively, you'll see there is a lot of intelligence behind them. If you disagree, articulate yourself.

>> No.1565802

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers
>Fuck the government, amiright?

Here's one everyone can agree on:
"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination."
>How can you disagree with her on that? Hit me with your best shot.

>> No.1565803

>>1565796
>the most important thinker on class of the past millennium
Wollstonecraft, Marx, Voltaire, Locke, Spen- Rand? Fucking really?

>> No.1565806

"Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure."

>implying labor theory of value

>> No.1565808

>>1565796
False equivalence.

The asylum is not filled with a mirror reversed society of normal citizens. You follow a dimwit.

>> No.1565814

>>1565803
>>1565803
I'm gonna guess you don't know shit about Marx.

If you can prove to me you know shit about Marx, I'll shut up. But it's my opinion you haven't read anything about him and you get most of your information about economics from Michael Moore movies.

"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."
>Ayn Rand, being awesome again

>> No.1565819

>>1565808
And what philosophy do you subscribe to that's so intelligent?

"What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose."
>A cute quote by Ms. Rand, queen of kings.

>> No.1565820

>>1565796

>most important thinker on class of the past millennium

Rand was hardly an important thinker of the last century, let alone most important and she doesn't even touch the list of the entire millennium.

>> No.1565824

Even if you disagree with her politically, here are some great apolitical quotes:

>Ideas do not exist separately from language.
>The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
>The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

How can you read these and not admit she's intelligent.

Also, what happened to that bitch who pretended to know about Marx?

>> No.1565827

>>1565824
Those statements are hardly profound.

>> No.1565829

All of these are Marx quotes attributed to Rand, dipshits.

>> No.1565832

>>1565827
Can you name a commie who can say anything smart?

>> No.1565834

>>1565829
Oh man, you ruined it.

Fucking great thread, though. That was maximum trolling. It gave me a laugh. I prepared a pic, but I guess I got caught in the act.

Thanks everyone who played along and thanks everyone who doesn't know shit about anything.

For the record, I've never read anything by Ayn Rand, but Marx is pretty cool.

>> No.1565836

>>1565834
Recurrent hipster, huh?

>> No.1565837

The greatest thinker on class? Rand?! Hardly... what about Marx? All of these Rand quotes are hardly profound... she's a buffoon! Socialism forever!

FUCK ME

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>>1565829
>>1565829
Also, I think Che's somewhere in there.

Out of curiosity, did you recognize the quotes or did you google them?

<-- Undeserved image.

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>>1565836
Hmm?

>> No.1565842

>>1565838
I recognized them. I thought you were doing good except for dropping painfully obvious ones like "A spectre is haunting Europe..." I mean, c'mon.

That was indeed excellent trolling, however.

>> No.1565846

>>1565838

Che did the one about colonialism.

Also, golfclap to you for how long you were able to keep this up.

>> No.1565847

>>1565839
Well, Marx had fallen out with hipsters once capitalism became the niche system, so everyone started reading Rand. Now that capitalism and Ayn Rand are re-entering the popular mainstream thought in everyone's minds, I'd assume hipsters would retreat back to their communist lit no matter how hackish the authors are.

>> No.1565850

>>1565842
>>1565846
Thankyou, thankyou.

>>1565847
I've had my political beliefs for a while. They're essentially the same since, I don't know, age twelve?

>> No.1566388

bump so I can read it tomorrow

>> No.1566541

I am staggered (geddit) that your trolling succeeded so well, especially with the more obvious quotes in there ("spectre" and che on apples). To praise your ingenuity is also simultaneously to condemn /lit/'s gullibility. It just goes to show how much we love to talk about things we haven't read.