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Nature of man Quotes by Ayn Rand

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A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

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“We are nothing mankind is all”

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“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.”

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The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

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“what’s the most depraved type of human being?” “The man without a purpose.”

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“The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.”

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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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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property…

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“The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence.…

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The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

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“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never…

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The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of…

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“We are the guardians of a great human function. Perhaps of the greatest function among the endeavors of man. We have achieved…

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“His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People…

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“A man’s method of using his consciousness determines his method of survival. The three contestants are Attila, the Witch Doctor and the…

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“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,…

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The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating…

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an…

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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 'human' mean the weakling, the fool, the rotter, the liar, the failure, the coward, the fraud, and to exile from the human race the hero, the thinker, the producer, the inventor, the strong, the purposeful, the pure—as if…

Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only…

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“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to…

“This was his glory and his guilt-- that he let them teach him to feel guilty of his glory, to accept the part of a sacrificial animal and, in punishment for the sin of intelligence, to perish on the altars of the brutes. The tragic joke of human history is that on any of the altars men erected, it was…

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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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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We…

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent over, holding his hand, not raising it from his knee, and she pressed her lips to his hand. Her hat fell off, he saw the blond head at his knees, he felt her mouth kissing his…

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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“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not…

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

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“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

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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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