Ayn Rand on evil
Ayn Rand106 quotes“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
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Ayn RandAyn Rand I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
Ayn RandAyn Rand You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
Ayn RandAyn Rand There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
Ayn RandAyn Rand An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandAyn Rand A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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ZoroasterZoroaster In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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