He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
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Zum Autor"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
"Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak."
"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."
"What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp."
"And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark."
"God forgives those who invent what they need."