You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That's your cruelty, that's what's mean and selfish about you. If you loved your brother, you'd give him a job he didn't… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
