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Ayn Rand Quotes about Integrity

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Happiness, Happy, Integrity

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.220, Penguin

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

Truth, Integrity, Knowledge

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

Integrity, Selfish, Independent

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . They are not axioms, but until a man has proved them to himself and has accepted them, he is not fit for an intellectual discussion. These two principles are: a. that emotions are not tools of cognition; b. that no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Integrity, Men, Two

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Courage, Integrity, Dedication

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.179, Penguin

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Honesty, Integrity, Self Esteem

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Honesty, Integrity, Men

Ayn Rand (1997). “Journals of Ayn Rand”, E P Dutton

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Integrity, Home, House

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.131, Penguin

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.

Integrity, Taken, Men

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.161, Penguin

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Integrity, Ideas, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Integrity, Men, Architecture

"Onlogic: Speed and Vision". Book by Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, 2008.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Integrity, Men, Thinking

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Honesty, Integrity, Fake

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Integrity, Men, Ideas

"Fictional character: Howard Roark". "The Fountainhead", www.imdb.com. 1949.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

Integrity, Thinking, Reality

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.

Loyalty, Integrity, Passion

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.173, Penguin

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Integrity, Sacrifice, Love Is

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.43, Penguin

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