If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn RandTags: jealousy rand parasitism
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
Ayn RandTags: progress purpose technology utility ingenuity
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.
Ayn RandTags: inspirational
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn RandTo be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
Ayn RandCivilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn RandTags: civilization
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn RandTags: independence
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
Ayn RandTags: excuses rationalization
Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
Ayn RandWhat greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
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