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Living Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
- One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate…
- Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no…
- 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…
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of…
- Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted…
- What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still.…
- I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov