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Ayn Rand Quotes about Evil

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There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Dream, Thinking, Evil

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.320, Hamilton Books

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Ignorance, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

Mean, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

Mean, Tyrants, Evil

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Winning, Evil, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Evil, Historical, Literature

Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

Government, Evil, Church

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.

Evil, Choices, Alternatives

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Evil, Novelists, Use

"The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Winning, Evil, Hatred

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Evil, Giving, World

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

Government, Evil, Abuse

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.45, Penguin

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

War, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

People, Evil, Political

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Mean, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.21, Penguin

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

Men, Evil, Mankind

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.255, Penguin

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

Mean, Men, Evil

"The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Suicide, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1501, Penguin

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Evil, Neutrality, Sanctions

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Evil, Degrees, Doe

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

Men, Long, Evil

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Witty, Men, Evil

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Taken, Long, Evil

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.80, Penguin

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

Real, Evil, Triumph

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent).

Issues, Evil, Consistent

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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