"Pity for the guilty is treason to the…" — Ayn Rand

"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."

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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand has 838 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked… — Honore de Balzac
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time… — Antonio Banderas
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard… — Samuel Adams
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved… — Tammy Bruce
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of… — George W. Bush
Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the… — Tony Campolo

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