"It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring……" — Ayn Rand
"It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much."
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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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More Adversaries Quotes
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
— Eric Cantona
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Unknown Author
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
— Sun Tzu
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
— J. William Fulbright
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