"What is the nature of a creature in which the sight of a value
arouses hatred and the desire to destroy?"
In the most profound sense of the term, such a creature is a killer, not a physical, but a metaphysical one - it is not an enemy of your values, but of ALL values, it is an enemy of anything that enables men to survive, it is an enemy of life as such and everything living."
- Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive
"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.... They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth they're after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man."
- Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual, Galt's Speech
