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Values Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish…
- 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…
- "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…
- 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…
- Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by…
- By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.
- That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to…
- 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…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- 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
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is… — Urie Bronfenbrenner