Nathaniel Branden Quotes

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

My point, they [Trump's followers] still don't care. They're going to stick with him no matter what.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

I'm fortunate to have a solid fan base.

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks and he reads and he becomes the head of the American Zionist movement after having previously been a secular Jew in this amazing intellectual evolution.

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he decided that his design was not being followed - which was a gross violation, by the way, of private property rights, because the building was his.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.