Brutality Quote by Ayn Rand

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

— Richard Grossman

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These…

— Ayn Rand

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been…

— Ayn Rand

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie…

— Albert Einstein

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust…

— Steven Pinker

“When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observed, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as ‘a…

— Shashi Tharoor

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently…

— Bertrand Russell

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I do is…

— Ayn Rand