Nature of man Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image ““To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.”” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of man
“what’s the most depraved type of human being?” “The man without a purpose.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When it comes to depravity, if you want to know, theirs and ours are no different.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being? -The man without purpose.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“(Sometimes I think humanity’s second-greatest need is a supervillain. Maybe” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There is no glory in killing a man because it satisfies someone else’s greed.” — Chris Dietzel Copy Share Image
“Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of knowledge, and thus attests his common origin with the essentially perverse and stupid mass of mankind, so also has every man something in his nature which is positively evil. Even the best, nay the noblest, character… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“One can't be a killer every moment of one's life. Some humanity is going to show itself now and then, some hunger for normality,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
