Ayn Rand Quotes About Ethics

• There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, People, Trying

  "Atlas Shrugged".

• In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  "Philosophy, who needs it?". Book by Ayn Rand, 1982.

• Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Life Changing, Choices

• If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Respect, Ethics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

• Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

  Ayn Rand

  Western Culture, Needs, Code Of Ethics

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.413, Penguin

• Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Effectiveness, Allies

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.266, Penguin

• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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