Skip to content

Evil Quote by Ayn Rand

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the…” quote by Ayn Rand — Download Open image

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Evil Force Guilty Innocent Justice Matter Pay Pity Sake Spirit Suffering Universe

More by Ayn Rand

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Image

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

Image

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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…

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…

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…

Image

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

Image

“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…

Image

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

Image

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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…

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…

Image

Explore all 1,777 Ayn Rand quotes

More Evil quotes

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group…

Image

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

Henry David Thoreau

Image

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Image

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

John Quincy Adams

Image

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

Image

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive…

Image

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

Image

The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Leonardo da Vinci

Image

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Image

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

Martin Luther King, Jr

Image

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

Image

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

Image

Browse all 9,710 Evil quotes