Ayn Rand: Man

Ayn Rand was Russian-American novelist and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

Ayn Rand

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

“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.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“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.”

Ayn Rand

“For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem

“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Source: Anthem (1937)

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

Ayn Rand

The Ayn Rand Column ‘Introducing Objectivism’

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”

Ayn Rand

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Variant: Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?

-The man without purpose.
Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead