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Values Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand writes that moral grayness rebels against clear values. She urges people to fight for personal pride, rational thought, and the right to exist for themselves, rejecting altruism that demands self‑sacrifice. She also claims capitalism is the only system that lets freedom and individuality thrive.

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Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

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Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

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A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

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Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

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The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

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Love is our response to our highest values.

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“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”

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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

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You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;…

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What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,…

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Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame…

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Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

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Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

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...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide…

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By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in…

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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no…

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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values…

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My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved…

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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider…

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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he…

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Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that…

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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it…

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There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,…

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The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two…

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“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason,…

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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of…

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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your…

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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

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“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

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“Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that ‘the good’ was…

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“As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To…

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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name…

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“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the…

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“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you…

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It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

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Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.