Ayn Rand Quotes

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Adults under threat feel like children.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

... there were few forces willing to confront the neoconservative juggernaut and its drive towards war with Iraq. They had mastered the art of marketing their policy prescriptions and were aggressive and intimidating in debate. Their strategy, as I discovered, was to make an opening statement, interrupt the person making a different argument, and then filibuster to the end of a five-minute television segment. That domination of the available time, coupled with aggressively stated talking points and ad hominem attacks on the credibility and intelligence of their interlocutors, was designed to leave viewers with the impression these neocon experts were the only ones who knew what they were talking about. After a while, many of the genuine experts on the region, people who had spent their careers living and working in the Arab world, simply refused to subject themselves to such demeaning behavior and retired to the sidelines.

Politics is not longer about argument of discussions it is about trying to put your opponents into the box of the untouchables.

Terrorism is the enemy of all free people…

To freemen, threats are impotent.

I left Nixon, feeling ... like a very small creature, skirting the shadows of encircling powers that would not hesitate to crush me as impersonally as a steam roller crushes a bug.