“It’s a rare gift…to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.” We The Living by Ayn Rand
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“You won’t get far with those ideas of yours."
"That depends on what direction I want to go." --We the Living by Ayn Rand “Can you sacrifice the few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top—and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can’t treat them as if they were.” --We the Living by Ayn Rand
“We all have our duty to society to consider.”
“Exactly to whom is it that you owe a duty…?” “To society.” “What is society?” “Society, Kira, is a stupendous whole.” “If you write a whole line of zeros, it’s still—nothing.” --We the Living by Ayn Rand “ ‘I’ve given up,’ said Irina, ‘and I’m not afraid. Only there’s something I would like to understand. And I don’t think anyone can explain it. You see, I know it’s the end for me. I know it, but I can’t quite believe it, I can’t feel it. It’s so strange. There’s your life. You begin it, feeling that it’s something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it’s like a sacred treasure. Now it’s over, and it doesn’t make any difference to anyone, and it isn’t that they are indifferent, it’s just that they don’t know, they don’t know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there’s something about it that they should understand. I don’t understand it myself, but there’s something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it, Kira? What?’ ” --We the Living by Ayn Rand |