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The Virtue of Selfishness Quotes

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. - Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism Quotes)

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Source:Chapter 1. The Objectivist Ethics, Page 19
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Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism Quotes)
  • Book: The Virtue of Selfishness
  • Writer: Ayn Rand
  • Genre: Essays, Ethics
  • Published: 1964
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