Ayn Rand Quotes about Choices

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When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

Evil, Choices, Alternatives

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Ayn Rand

Change, Life Changing, Choices

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Ayn Rand

Government, Organization, Choices

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.43, Penguin

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Ayn Rand

Rights, Choices, Destroying

"A Last Survey - Part I". The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Ayn Rand

Men, Choices, Firsts

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.205, Penguin

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Ayn Rand

Men, Choices, Religion

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 his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Ayn Rand

Men, Practice, Choices

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Ayn Rand

Choices, Morality, Accepted

Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

Ayn Rand

Thinking, Choices, Focus

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.193, Penguin

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Ayn Rand

Character, Thinking, Choices

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.192, Penguin

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Ayn Rand

Choices, Morality, Reason

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Ayn Rand

Choices, Demand, Objects

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.997, Penguin

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 make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Ayn Rand

Country, School, Choices

Ayn Rand Quotes about Choices

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