Doe Quotes by Ayn Rand

56 Doe quotes by Ayn Rand

Rand’s emphasis on personal agency shines through when she tackles the idea of Doe. These fifty‑six statements capture her belief in self‑reliance, ambition, and the pursuit of one’s own values.

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

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I am a man who does not exist for others.

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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

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Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

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Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

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If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

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Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own…

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But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real…

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A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

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To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

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Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and…

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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

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Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can…

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Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It…

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Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as…

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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of…

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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or…

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I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not…

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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism…

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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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The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to…

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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;…

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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless…

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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and…

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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small…

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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,…

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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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In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his…

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The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is…

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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part…

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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;…

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The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic…

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A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to…

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The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society…

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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I…

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Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission.…

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The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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

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