Ayn Rand Quotes About Dignity

• It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  Ayn Rand

  Courage, Pain, Dirty

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

• Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Principles

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.877, Penguin

• Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

  Ayn Rand

  Doctors, Titles, Bears

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.263, Penguin

• When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Attention, Dignity

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

• Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Gauges

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.75, Penguin

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