| | | In Atlas Shrugged, exposing the meaning of altruism, John Galt says:
“What passkey admits you to the moral elite? The passkey is lack of value. Whatever the value involved, it is your lack of it that gives you a claim upon those who don’t lack it. To demand rewards for your virtue is selfish and immoral; it is your lack of virtue that transforms your demand into a moral right.”
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it...The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. CHESTERTON
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God. CHESTERTON
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. CHESTERTON
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. RAND
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. CHESTERTON
It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear. RAND
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed. RAND
They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself. RAND
They don't think it be like it is, but it do. Oscar Gamble |
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