A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs… — 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
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In spiritual issues--(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity. — 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
“You will live in a world of responsible beings, who will be as consistent and reliable as facts; the guarantee of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and… — 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
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — 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 Image
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 Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
