"A great deal may be learned about society by studying man; but this process cannot be reversed: nothing can be learned about man by studying society - by studying the inter-relationships of entities one has never identified or defined."
~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Individualism
""It's only human," you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept "human" mean:
- The weakling
- The fool
- The rotter
- The liar
- The failure
- The coward
- The fraud
And to exile from the human race:
- The hero
- The thinker
- The producer
- The inventor
- The strong
- The purposeful
- The pure
- as if "to feel" were human, but to think were not, as if to fail were human, but to succeed were not, as if corruption were human, but virtue were not - as if the premise of death were proper to man, but the premise of life were not."
"In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted:
- By the ugly
- The cowardly
- The mindless
in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads."
~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Man
