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Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Physical force is called evil, yet retaliation is framed as a moral imperative. The quotes warn against calling money evil, argue that evil cannot be justified, and claim that treating evil neutrally gives it permission. They also suggest that using force for survival erodes goodness.

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

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

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Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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,…

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

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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.

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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…

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