Character Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Charity Duty Fighting Generosity Ideas Moral Moral duty Primaries Virtue
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
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Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
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Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
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