"It is only the metaphysics of a leech that would cling to the idea of a universe where a zero is a standard of identification. A leech would want to seek escape from the necessity to name its own nature - escape from the necessity to know that the substance on which it builds its private universe is blood."
"Where the rotter and the hero are interchangeable parts arbitrarily assumed at will."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, This is John Galt Speaking
"I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned." - By Ayn Rand, Anthem 96
"I shall choose my friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we do desire. For in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone." - By Ayn Rand, Anthem 96
"I, who do not accept the unearned, neither in values nor in guilt."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, This is John Galt Speaking
"I shall choose my friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we do desire. For in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone." - By Ayn Rand, Anthem 96
