„An individualist is a man who says: “I’ll not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.”“

— Ayn Rand

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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.“
— Ayn Rand
„Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.“
— Paulo Coelho
„It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.“
— Ayn Rand
„It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.“
— Andrew Carnegie