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Sacrifice Quotes by Ayn Rand

52 Sacrifice quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand says that when people ask others to give up their best, someone else collects the benefit. She argues that true freedom means keeping your own rights, not giving them to a group or a vague 'public good.' She also warns that ignoring reality can lead to disaster.

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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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“What I've got to offer you is your life.' 'It's not yours to offer...”

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The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

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Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

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The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

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The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

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Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

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Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

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“One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices. ... It takes strength to deny yourself…

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“In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men…

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I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I…

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I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die…

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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

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Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

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“If his judgment is to be an object of sacrifice — what sort of efficacy, control, freedom from conflict, or serenity of…

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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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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;…

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There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,…

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Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation…

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I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for…

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

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Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that…

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“A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not. But men will not…

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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and…

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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

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In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name…

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Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible…

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“He's paying the price and wondering for what sin and telling himself that he's been too selfish. In what act or thought…

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Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet…

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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

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“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the…

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“I am. I think. I will. My hands. . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . This earth…

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“This was his glory and his guilt-- that he let them teach him to feel guilty of his glory, to accept the…

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In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

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It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

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Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They…

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“If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a…

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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither…

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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…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

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

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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…

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

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