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Purpose Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
- Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without…
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
- 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.…
- The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,…
- In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...
- The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only…
- [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no…
- 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…
- The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a…
- Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.…
- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your…
- The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
- Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to…
- My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with…
- The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
- 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…
- 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…
- Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but…
More Purpose Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- The purpose of all wars, is peace. — Saint Augustine
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to… — Michele Bachmann
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the… — Edward Abbey
- I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. — Dave Barry