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Need 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.…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated…
- A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,…
- 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…
- The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.
- No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are…
- Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men…
- I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the…
- To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
- If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
- Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's…
- Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So…
- I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
- In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
- Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their…
- 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,…
- I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
- I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated…
- Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show…
More Need Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson