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Facts Quotes by Ayn Rand
- "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
- An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
- If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who…
- Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To…
- Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and…
- The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is…
- To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it…
- The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep…
- Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
- The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to…
- Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute…
- Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
- Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done?…
- I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity,…
- Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot…
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