People/R
The quotations of
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher
1905–1982
17 quotes, most often on Morality, Economics and Race.
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking…the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
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 Rand1905–1982
