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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."
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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"Let thy true religion be to act right."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."
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"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
Self-Worth
"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
Progress
"The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this."
Religion
"Woman wants control, man self-control ."
Control
"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."
Emotion
"If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me."
Self
"The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope?"
Philosophy
"Moral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, accomplisheslittlebecause the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it."
Morality
"Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts."
Knowledge
"The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness."
Morality
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