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Possible 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.…
- "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…
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in…
- She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that…
- If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since…
- Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
- Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of…
- No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to…
- Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the…
- Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men…
- The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found…
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
- But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the…
- I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
- So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a…
- She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell…
- I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust…
- But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn…
- The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
- Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own…
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- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
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- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey