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
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — 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
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — 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
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
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard. — 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
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
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
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — 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
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
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — 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
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
