Ayn Rand Quotes About Lust

• Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, War, Stupid

• Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Power, Lust

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

• Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Stupidity, Lust

• The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

  Ayn Rand

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.745, Hamilton Books

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