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Moral Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep…
- God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
- "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…
- 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…
- As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only…
- 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…
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and…
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If…
- 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…
- The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
- What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
- It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves…
- We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base:…
- All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
- I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States…
- If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in…
- 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…
- 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…
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
- The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than…
- [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
- Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.
- Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
- Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter…
- Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac