"It is morally obscene to regard wealth as……" — Ayn Rand
"It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand has 838 quotes on this site.
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like…
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The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and…
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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little…
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When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining…
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us…
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
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