All 9 Uses of
prescribe
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return.†
Chpt 2.2 *prescribe = recommend or require what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- If she was loathsome, he thought, it was he who had brought her to it; this was her way of taking pain-no one could prescribe the form of a human being's attempt to bear suffering-no one could blame-above all, not he, who had caused it.†
Chpt 2.3
- No. I don't try to prescribe how much a man should have to bear.†
Chpt 2.3
- She looked out of the rear window: the track went off in a straight line and, at the prescribed distance, she saw the red lanterns left on the ground, placed conscientiously to protect the rear of the train.†
Chpt 2.10prescribed = recommended or required what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) gave medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- I, who knew that wealth is only a means to an end, created the means and let them prescribe my ends.†
Chpt 3.3prescribe = recommend or require what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- I, who took pride in my ability to achieve the satisfaction of my desires, let them prescribe the code of values by which I judged my desires.†
Chpt 3.3
- the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.†
Chpt 3.7
- Arrests were futile, the jails were full, the arresting officers winked at their prisoners and let them escape on then— way to prisonmen were going through the motions prescribed for the moment, with no thought of the moment to follow.†
Chpt 3.8prescribed = recommended or required what should be done OR (of a medical doctor) gave medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
- No grapefruit juice?" he snapped; his doctor had prescribed grapefruit juice as protection against an epidemic of colds.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
to recommend or require what should be done
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics
or more specifically:
of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions -- such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics