And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
Ayn RandStichwörter: inspirational
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
Ayn RandWhat I feel for you is contempt. But it's nothing, compared to the contempt I feel for myself. I don't love you. I've never loved anyone. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you. I wanted you as one wants a whore - for the same reason and purpose. I spent two years damning myself, because I thought you were above a desire of this kind. You're not. You're as vile an animal as I am. I should loathe my discovering it. I don't. Yesterday, I would have killed anyone who'd tell me that you were capable of doing what I've had you do. Today, I would give my life not to let it be otherwise. Not to have you be anything but the bitch you are. All the greatness that I saw in you - I would not take it in exchange for the obscenity of your talent at an animal's sensation of pleasure. We were two great beings, you and I, proud of our strength, weren't we? Well this is all that's left of us - and I want no self-deception about it.
Ayn RandWe'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?
Ayn RandWe are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Ayn RandStichwörter: equality humanity skin
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn RandOnly the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.
Ayn RandA culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
Ayn RandStichwörter: philosophy
He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.
Ayn RandStichwörter: atlas-shrugged
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