"It's amazing how much panic
one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."
one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."
~ Thomas Sowell
""Who permitted it to hap-" he began in a rising voice, but stopped; the vibrations he caught were the dangerous panic of the cornered. "What do you make of it?" he asked, instead. There was no answer. "Well?" He waited. "Well, say something, somebody!"" - 980
"Why is he so sure he is right? Who is he to go against the whole world, against everything ever said for centuries and centuries? Who is he to know?" - 980
"In the first place," said Dr. Ferris, encouraged,
"people can't think. In the second place, they don't want to." - 982
"The women of the country won't go for it," declared Ma Chalmers. "It is, I believe an established fact that women don't go for that stuff about the mind. Women have inner feelings. You can count on the women." - 981
"She went on, with the bright, pure glitter of a five-dollar gold piece, which she kept in her pocket, as her last drop of fuel." - 918
"She went on, protected from the world around her by a last armor: indifference." - 918
~ By Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, "This is John Galt Speaking"