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Atlas Society misquotes Atlas Shrugged again
When I disagree with a rational man. I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes The Objectivist Calendar
Nobody has the 'right' to clog the streets.... and cause dreadful traffic snarls, in order to display their views, to attract attention, to register a protest.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes Cameron Winklevoss
The societies that have perpetuated the worst crimes against humanity have been censorship and propaganda states. Long live free speech.
about 1 year ago
Ben Bayer, director of content at Ayn Rand Institute, misquotes himself
The right to self-defense is an unconditional right, not a permission doled out only under comfortable conditions. [Your] right to life … is not compromised by the fact that someone threatening to kill you has also taken a hostage who might be hurt.
about 1 year ago
David Deutsch misquotes Richard Dawkins
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.
about 1 year ago
David Deutsch misquotes Pericles
Instead of looking upon discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes Anthem
Centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within man.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society correctly quotes Aaron Kheriaty
The notion that we cannot be friends with, work with...people with whom we have deep disagreements on certain issues...is harmful to the social fabric in general and to social movements in particular.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes For the New Intellectual
The man who speaks to you if sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. and intends to be master.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes The Voice of Reason
A new campaign is being sneaked up on us, softly, tentatively, but insistently: a campaign to load us with the responsibility of feeding the whole world.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes Ayn Rand Answers
Do not give up the freedom of the press and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.
about 1 year ago
Atlas Society misquotes Atlas Shrugged
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Institute misquotes Ayn Rand’s Man’s Rights (patience algorithm)
The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. . . . Some men assert that rights are a gift of God—others, that rights are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rights is man's nature.
about 1 year ago
DeSantis misquotes Budweiser ad, misattributes Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
about 1 year ago
Jewish Voice For Peace UMich misquotes Jordan Acker
Free speech isn't free speech, until the last Nazi has had the right to speak free speech.
about 1 year ago
Fixing Ayn Rand Institute’s misquote of Ayn Rand’s Man’s Rights
The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. [S]ome men assert that rights are a gift of God—others, that rights are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rights is man’s nature.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Institute misquotes Ayn Rand’s Man’s Rights
The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. . . . Some men assert that rights are a gift of God—others, that rights are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rights is man's nature.
about 1 year ago
David Deutsch misquotes Karl Popper's The Myth of the Framework 2
The inductivist or Lamarckian approach operates with the idea of instruction from without, or from the environment. But the critical or Darwinian approach only allows instruction from within – from within the structure itself… I contend that there is no such thing as instruction from without the structure. We do not discover new facts or new effects by copying them, or by inferring them inductively from observation, or by any other method of instruction by the environment. We use, rather, the method of trial and the elimination of error. As Ernst Gombrich says, ‘making comes before matching’: the active production of a new trial structure comes before its exposure to eliminating tests.
about 1 year ago
Kieren (krazyander) misquotes Dennis Hackethal
1) Creativity is necessary and sufficient for consciousness/sentience to arise. 2) Animals are not creative. 3) Therefore, animals are not sentient.
about 1 year ago
David Deutsch misquotes Karl Popper's The Myth of the Framework
The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists,’ this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Institute misquoting Ayn Rand's original Of Living Death too
An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not yet living (or the unborn). Abortion is a moral right — which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Institute misquoting Ayn Rand's Collectivized Rights
Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Institute misquoting Ayn Rand's Of Living Death
An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn). Abortion is a moral right.
about 1 year ago
For the New Intellectual correctly quoting Atlas Shrugged
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube. “You, who are half-rational, half-coward, have been playing a con game with reality, but the victim you have conned is yourself. When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.
about 1 year ago
Ayn Rand Lexicon misquoting For the New Intellectual
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube . . . When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.
about 1 year ago