Morality Quotes by Ayn Rand

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

— Ayn Rand

“moral absolute one does not”

— Ayn Rand

A rational process is a moral process.

— Ayn Rand

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

— Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

— Ayn Rand

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

— Ayn Rand

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

— Ayn Rand

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

— Ayn Rand

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

— Ayn Rand

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions…

— Ayn Rand

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly…

— Ayn Rand

“The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood…

— Ayn Rand

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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“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.”

— Ayn Rand

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily…

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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,…

— Ayn Rand

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and…

— Ayn Rand

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of…

— Ayn Rand

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without…

— Ayn Rand

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that…

— Ayn Rand

You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you…

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

— Ayn Rand

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of…

— Ayn Rand

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he…

— Ayn Rand

“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that…

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

“And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important...…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification…

— Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on…

— Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

— Ayn Rand

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

— Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide…

— Ayn Rand

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force…

— Ayn Rand