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Needs 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.…
- Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- 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.
- Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
- 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.
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