"You'd let the whole world perish rather than……" — Ayn Rand
"You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed."
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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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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
— Richard Bach
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
— Mary J. Blige
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
— John Abbott
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
— Emily Blunt
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
— Tony Campolo
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
— Louie Anderson
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