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Value Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep…
- The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure…
- I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which…
- My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- 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…
- Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should…
- 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…
- [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape…
- In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms…
- The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
- Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
- An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy…
More Value Quotes
- There Is No Value Of What You Did In Past, Show Your Best Part Today. Everyone Wants To Read Today's Newspaper Coz… — Ritu Ghatourey
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- There Is No Value Of What You Did In Past, Show ur Best Part Today. Bcoz Everyone Wants To Read Today's Newspaper… — Ritzy
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson