Desert Quote by Ayn Rand

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

— Nathaniel Branden

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

— Michel de Montaigne

If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is…

— Esther Vilar

Man has responsibility, not power.

— Anonymous

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

— Ralph Moody

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No man can have society upon his own terms.

— Anonymous

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

— Michel de Montaigne

No man is an island unto himself.

— John Donne

“The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless…

— Joseph Reese Strayer