Ayn Rand Quotes About Compromise

• But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Average, Individuality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.73, 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Liberty

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

• There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Government, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.65, 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Integrity, Knowledge

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

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Hatred

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

• Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Frustration, People, Trying

• I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Half, Way

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

• There can be no compromise on moral principles.

  Ayn Rand

  Principles, Moral, Compromise

  Ayn Rand (2001). “The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.51, Penguin

• Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

  Ayn Rand

  Wish, Gone, Compromise

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.60, Penguin

• Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Black And White, Men, Sides

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1964). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”, Signet

You May Also Like:

Leonard Peikoff

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

Nathaniel Branden

Murray Rothbard

Alan Greenspan

Milton Friedman