A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil! — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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