Ayn Rand Quotes about Duty

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There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

Ayn Rand

Men, Want, Duty

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.80, Penguin

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Ayn Rand

Desire, Duty, Interest

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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 .

Ayn Rand

Men, Duty, Obligation

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin