Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — 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
“The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — 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
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — 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
“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — 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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