"A savage is a being who has not grasped that A is A and that reality is real. He has arrested his mind at the level of a baby's." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shurgged, page 953
"As they feed on stolen wealth in body, so they feed on stolen concepts in mind, and proclaim that honesty consists of refusing to know that one is stealing. As they use effects while denying causes, so they use our concepts while denying the roots and the existence of the concepts they are using. As they seek not to build, but to take over industrial plants, so they seek, not to think, but to take over human thinking." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, page 951
"The links you strive to drown are causal connections. The enemy you seek to defeat is the law of causality: it permits you no miracles." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, page 949
"If you wish to save the last of your dignity, do not call your best actions a sacrifice: that term brands you as immoral. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions, it is not a sacrifice, unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, page 941-942
