Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Quote by Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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Ayn Rand Quotes
- Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
- The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- 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 moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
- Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
- If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Best Quotes
- One man's folly is another man's wife.
- I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
- My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
- For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
- Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
- Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
- The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.