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Rational Quotes by Ayn Rand
- 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…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- 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…
- Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold…
- All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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:…
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
- To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the…
- A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
- Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
- Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates,…
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
- 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…
- Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from…
- Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a…
- In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure…
- 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.…
- Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
- When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong,…
More Rational Quotes
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
- Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank
- Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to… — Benjamin Carson
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky
- Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
- A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. — Thomas Aquinas