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Act Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.…
- Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by…
- No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
- A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
- To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to…
- Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
- Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
- All work is an act of philosophy.
- Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be…
- [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no…
- We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens…
- People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one…
- Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
- Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
- A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
- Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
- Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted…
- Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
More Act Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden