Rand Quotes

"What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend if on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish." - Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is most likely talking about individual growth but this stuck out to me on a societal level. The definition of the word conservative is "holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation." To keep things exactly as they are, unchanging and status quo. I agree with Rand, one must grow to survive or they will perish. Society too must grow and progress or else it will die in the process. That is why it amazes me when people try to cling to the past long after it is gone and reject change or progress. That is what will kill society and they make it harder for change and progression to take place but it will anyways. No one cannot stop change, merely drag their feet and delay it. Many people think they can keep things the way they are to keep their wealth and prosperity and at the same time denying others their chance to attain such things for themselves. 

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

This is what such people are doing. No one can stop change yet they continually try to get back to the "good old days" or just keep things the same for their own benefit. They deny others' rights but denying themselves and reality. It will catch up to them. They consequences are real. They make others lives harder in an attempt to improve their own. You cannot stop change or progress. You cannot avoid reality. These are truths many do not know, or choose to forget.