David Harsanyi Quotes

I don't need government to be successful.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

I am a rank individualist.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the State.

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.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I don't want to depend on anyone.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.