Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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Zum Autor"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."
"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
"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."
"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."
"And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark."
"A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego."