Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

— Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

— Ayn Rand

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

— Ayn Rand

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

— Ayn Rand

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

— Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an…

— Ayn Rand

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my…

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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it…

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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

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There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

— Ayn Rand

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit…

— Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an…

— Ayn Rand

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to…

— Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is…

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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure…

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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider…

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I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was…

— Ayn Rand

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight…

— Ayn Rand

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by…

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You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but…

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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those…

— Ayn Rand

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

— Ayn Rand

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .…

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“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

— Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was…

— Ayn Rand

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic…

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“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw,…

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“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…

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The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

— Ayn Rand

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable…

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Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;…

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When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means…

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Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only…

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Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which…

— Ayn Rand