Need Some Quote Help
Brad Harrington
Please pardon me for not responding to posts; I've
been busy. I'll get to them tonight.
Meanwhile, I need some help with a Rand quote.
The gist of it is, "No form of exploitation can
continue for long without the consent of the
exploited"--but I can't remember where I read it,
nor did an hour-long Google search help me out.
Anybody know the exact quote, and where it came
from?
Brad Harrington
Charles Bell
wrote:
> Meanwhile, I need some help with a Rand quote.
> The gist of it is, "No form of exploitation can
> continue for long without the consent of the
> exploited"--but I can't remember where I read it,
> nor did an hour-long Google search help me out.
>
That is one of those things that sounds like what Rand might say but
did not. It has to do with the sanction of the victim (a chapter title
in AS): "Why didn't they throw at him all those accusations of cruelty
and selfishness, which he had come to accept as the eternal chorus to
his life? What had permitted them to do it for years? He knew that the
words he heard in his mind were the key to the answer: The sanction of
the victim."
And in Galt's speech: "But it cannot be done to you without your
consent. If you permit it to be done, you deserve it."
Brad Harrington
>> Meanwhile, I need some help with a Rand quote.
>> The gist of it is, "No form of exploitation can
>> continue for long without the consent of the
>> exploited"--but I can't remember where I read it,
>> nor did an hour-long Google search help me out.
> Charles Bell wrote:
> That is one of those things that sounds like what Rand might say but
> did not. It has to do with the sanction of the victim (a chapter title
> in AS): "Why didn't they throw at him all those accusations of cruelty
> and selfishness, which he had come to accept as the eternal chorus to
> his life? What had permitted them to do it for years? He knew that the
> words he heard in his mind were the key to the answer: The sanction of
> the victim."
> And in Galt's speech: "But it cannot be done to you without your
> consent. If you permit it to be done, you deserve it."
Thanks for the help Charles...but, despite the fact that I
have searched through all my Rand material and not
found it, I am still pretty sure it is there somewhere...short
of re-reading everything she wrote, which would take
quite some time, I'll just have to stumble across it at a
later date.
I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in her non-fiction...but I went
ahead and used the phrase anyway. I wanted to quote it but
since I couldn't find it I gave up...and used it for myself. Heh
heh heh!!
After all, if she never said it, then I can say it, can I not?
Brad Harrington
Ray
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Well, I found this in the Ayn Rand Lexicon.
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The "sanction of the victim" is the willingness of the good to suffer at the
hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the "sin" of
creating values.
Leonard Peikoff, "The Philosophy of Objectivism"
lecture series (1976), Lecture 8.
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But like you, I also think it's somewhere in her non-fiction writing.
Could the above be actually her quote?
Ray