"A man's ego is the fountainhead of human…" — Ayn Rand
"A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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