Best quotes by Ayn Rand on Man

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• ‟ A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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• ‟ I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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• ‟ Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

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• ‟ The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

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• ‟ Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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• ‟ Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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• ‟ It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

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• ‟ When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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• ‟ From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

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• ‟ A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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• ‟ Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

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• ‟ Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

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• ‟ Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

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