"One must never allow oneself to acquire an……" — Ayn Rand
"One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes"
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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 Absolutes Quotes
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double…
— Ravi Zacharias
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
— Raymond Chandler
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
— Dave Filoni
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
— Charles Dickens
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion.…
— John Dewey
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
— Serge King
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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