Quote 81
One cannot be a traitor to anything, except to oneself.
Ayn Rand. Red Pawn.
Quote 82
It will be hard to lose your job and to find yourself in the street. In a dark, lonely street, where you'll
see your friends passing by and looking past you, as if you did not exist. Where you will want to
scream and tell them of the great things you know, but no one will hear and no one will answer. It
will be hard, won't it?
Ayn Rand. Ideal.
Quote 83
Well, Mick, seventy-five million, six hundred thousand people hate me. They hate me in their hearts
for the things they see in me, the things they have betrayed. I mean nothing to them, except a
reproach... But there are three hundred and twelve others - perhaps only the twelve. There are a few
who want the highest possible and will take nothing less and will not live on any other terms.
Ayn Rand. Ideal.
Quote 84
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value -- judgments.
Ayn Rand.
Quote 85
Reality, the external world, exists independent of man's consciousness, independent of any observer's knowledge, beliefs, feelings, desires or fears. This means that A is A, that facts are facts, that things are what they are -- and that the task of man's consciousness is to perceive reality, not to create or invent it.
Ayn Rand.
Quote 86
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
Ayn Rand.
Quote 87
"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes."
Ayn Rand.
Quote 88
"Civilisation is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilisation is the process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead, 1943.
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