Quote by Ayn Rand

“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.”

— Paolo Giordano

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was…

— Ayn Rand

“Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world,…

— Clive Barker

“He abhorred people who said things that hadn’t been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet…

— Mark Twain

“It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see.…

— Cate Tiernan

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care.…

— Jesse Ball

“never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it…

— Danielle Steel