Identity Quotes by Ayn Rand

18 Identity quotes by Ayn Rand

Rand’s eighteen statements celebrate the power of the autonomous individual. Her philosophy of rational self‑interest shines through, offering a clear, assertive perspective for those who value personal sovereignty.

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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

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That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel…

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A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive…

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“Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe…

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“If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to…

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“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others…

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Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable…

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No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap…

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Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I…

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Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will…

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An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not…

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Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -…

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“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other…

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“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no…

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“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept…

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

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