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Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-”and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
– Ayn Rand

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  1. A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. – Ayn Rand
  2. 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
  3. Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. – Julia Cameron
  4. …there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers. – Ayn Rand
  5. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. – Ayn Rand
  6. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
  7. If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid. – Rand Miller
  8. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  9. There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act. – Ayn Rand
  10. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. – Ayn Rand
  11. To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else. – Ayn Rand
  12. The source of work? Man’s mind…man’s reasoning mind. – Ayn Rand
  13. It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man–almost rarer–who is great enough to see greatness and say so. – Ayn Rand
  14. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil? – Ayn Rand
  15. Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost. – Ayn Rand
  16. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. – Ayn Rand
  17. …there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. – Ayn Rand
  18. …man’s life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey… – Ayn Rand
  19. I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. – Ayn Rand
  20. ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all. – Ayn Rand
  21. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. – Ayn Rand
  22. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. – Ayn Rand
  23. I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will. – Andrew Smith
  24. How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama! – Aihebholooria Okonoboh
  25. Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted. – Jim George
  26. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing. – Maya Banks
  27. A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom. – Ayn Rand
  28. When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you -“ you know your nation is doomed. – Ayn Rand
  29. My real soul…? It’s real only when it’s independent… – Ayn Rand
  30. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. – Ayn Rand
  31. Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-”and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. – Ayn Rand
  32. What’s wealth but the means of expanding one’s life? There’s two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster. – Ayn Rand
  33. Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. – Ayn Rand
  34. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. – Ayn Rand
  35. Dont switch the blame to her, that’s the oldest trick of all cowards – Ayn Rand
  36. And, after all, you’ve got to live.--œNot that way,- said Roark. – Ayn Rand
  37. Great men can’t be ruled… The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. – Ayn Rand
  38. You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually? – Ayn Rand
  39. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand
  40. The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. – Ayn Rand

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