Ayn Rand, The Virtue Of Selfishness: A New Concept Of Egoism Quotes
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .