Ethics Quotes by Ayn Rand

12 Ethics quotes by Ayn Rand

Rand’s ethical perspective pivots on the power of the individual mind. Though brief, this set offers a clear glimpse into her philosophy that champions rational self‑interest as a moral virtue.

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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

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Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

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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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“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of…

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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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“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his…

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“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the…

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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must…

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“But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about…

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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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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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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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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

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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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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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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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