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Judgment Quotes by Ayn Rand
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with 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…
- 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…
- When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
- 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…
- 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…
- When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
- The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may…
- 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…
- Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody…
- What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising…
- Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
- A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
- You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it…
More Judgment Quotes
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- The more one judges, the less one loves. — Honore de Balzac
- Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
- A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease… — Georges Bataille
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something… — Unknown Author
- As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the… — Annie Besant
- The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. — Grace Abbott
- You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to… — Joe Biden
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings
- In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. — Aeschylus
- It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. — Erma Bombeck