"Morality is a code of black and white.……" — Ayn Rand
"Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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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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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
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