Equal Quotes by Ayn Rand

8 Equal quotes by Ayn Rand

Rand’s philosophy of individualism surfaces in these eight compact reflections on parity, giving a clear, if brief, sense of her Objectivist stance.

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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…

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Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make…

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Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness…

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There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to…

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Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no…

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The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had…

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“and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.”

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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

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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 fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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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…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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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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