"If you cannot achieve equality of performance
among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof,
how realistic is it to expect to achieve it
across broader and deeper social divisions?"
~ Thomas Sowell
"Only his voice filled the airways of the country - of the world, thought the chief engineer - sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind." - 924
"Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn't. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren't." - 924
"Why is there so much effort being put into
trying to find intelligent life on other planets,
when there is a serious question about how
much intelligent life there is here?"
~ Thomas Sowell
"While you were dragging to your sacrificial alters the men of justice, independence, of reason, wealth, of self-esteem - I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp." - 924
"We had granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. But your game is up, because now we know it, too." - 925
"Good? by what standard?"
~ Ayn Rand
~ Above quotes with pages, By Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, "Who is John Galt Speaking"
