Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of ‘Life’ that makes the concept of 'Value’ possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
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Zum Autor"In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church."
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."
"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."
"Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak."