Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities

you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional pr ice paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. (Ayn Rand) Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. (Ayn Rand) Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we r eally want. (Ayn Rand) Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (Ayn Rand) The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream. (Ayn Rand) I am. I think. I will. (Ayn Rand) To fear to face an issue is to believe the worst is true. (Ayn Rand) A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share hi s racial origin. (Ayn Rand) A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. (Ayn Rand) An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. (Ayn Rand) Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. (Ayn Rand) Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-moti vated, not to be touched. (Ayn Rand) When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. (Ayn Rand) All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. (Ayn Rand) Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. (Ayn Rand) It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives f rom love. (Ayn Rand) "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. (Ayn Rand) Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replac e you as the driver. (Ayn Rand) The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy you rself and live. (Ayn Rand) A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat

others. (Ayn Rand) From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attr ibute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. (Ayn Rand) Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. (Ayn Rand) Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. (Ay n Rand) The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. (Ayn Ra nd) God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceiv e. (Ayn Rand) To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's rea l power. (Ayn Rand) The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. (Ayn Rand) The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decide d not to see. (Ayn Rand) To love is to value... The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. (Ayn Rand) Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, arm ed with nothing but their own vision. (Ayn Rand) Worry is a waste of emotional reserve. (Ayn Rand) I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no ma tter how long or hard the struggle. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged "Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight f or the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the M orality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth." | P3C7 "You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for t he sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threat s will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. You, who have lost the concept of the difference, you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal powerand secretly add that fear is the more practicalyou do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned." | Atlas Shrugged A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat o thers. Ayn Rand If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. Ayn Rand My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It i s its own purpose. Ayn Rand, Anthem "People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, comdemning onesel f from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be f aked...The man who lies to the world, is the worlds slave from then onThere are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the b lackest of all." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 3, Ch. 3 Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fig ht them. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It' s no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it' s a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for t he sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threat s will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. You, who have lost the concept of the difference, you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal powerand secretly add that fear is the more practicalyou do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. "Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for th ose who have something to celebrate." | P1C5 "Mediocrity is not an average mind. It is an average mind that resents and envie s its betters." -Ayn Rand "Honor is self-esteem made visible in action." | The Ayn Rand Letter "When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good . Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becom ing the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You a re." | P2C2 "They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not wan t to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each tryin g not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the ess ence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that theyre after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man." | P3C7

The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for y our own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and gunsor dollars. Take your choicethere is no otherand your time is running out." "Dagny, there's nothing of any importance in life- except how well you do your w ork. nothing. only that. whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the on ly measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of the ir virtues. the code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a go ld standard..."- Fransisco "Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth." | P1C10 "But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not r eplace you as the driver. "Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money ha s obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. Ayn Rand I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of other s, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dis honest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not. Fr ancisco D'Anconia @Hank Reardon/ Atlas Shrugged "I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life." | Atlas Shrugged To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: ReasonPurposeSelf-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledgePurpose, as his cho ice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieveSelf-esteem, as his i nviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. Ayn Rand "Madam, when we'll see men dying of starvation around us, your heart won't be of any earthly use to save them. And I'm heartless enough to say that when you'll scream, "But I didn't know it!" you will not be forgiven." | P2C2 "They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not wan t to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each tryin g not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the ess ence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that theyre after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man." | P3C7

Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. | P3C1

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, . " , - ..." - Imagine it, miss Taggart. - I do... every day - Please understand, it's my job - It's the job, you choosed "Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it i mmoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is n ot moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If yo u are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious w hen they take it?" ~A.R. Those who do not live by reason cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. If enjoyment is when experienced others to do so? give it away? | a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to P3C7

Money is made... made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of hi s ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. | P2C2 Every man builds his world in his own image... He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. | P3C2 "There is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loya lty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective r ags of that vice which you call a virtue: humilitylearn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happinessand when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man." | P3C7 "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-moti vated, not to be touched. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, theyre not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill s ome part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict--and they call i t growth. At the end theres nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and o ut on an unformed mass. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole exi stence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

"Here, we trade achievements, not failuresvalues, not needs. We're free of one an other, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wealth is there tha n to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish." | Atlas Shrugged "What I actually am, Mr. Rearden, is a policeman. It is a policeman's duty to pr otect men from criminalscriminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But wh en robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of propertythen it is an outlaw who has to becom e a policeman." | P2C7 "Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the co urage of their own greatness." Gail Wynand "All work is an act of philosophy." | P3C1 "Look around you: what you have done to society, you have done it first within y our soul; one is the image of the other. This dismal wreckage, which is now your world, is the physical form of the treason you committed to your values, to you r friends, to your defenders, to your future, to your country, to yourself." | A tlas Shrugged She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suff ering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact of feeling pain, and refused to let it matter. Suffering was a senseless accident, it was not part of life as she saw it. She would not allow pain to become important. She had no na me for the kind of resistance she offered, for the emotion from which the resist ance came; but the words that stood as its equivalent in her mind were: It does not count - it is not to be taken seriously. She knew these were the words, even in the moments when there was nothing left within her but screaming and she wis hed she could lose the faculty of consciousness so that it would not tell her th at what could not be true was true. Not to be taken seriously - an immovable cer tainty within her kept repeating - pain and ugliness are never to be taken serio usly. ...pain and ugliness are never to be taken seriously. | Atlas Shrugged "All of you welfare preachersit's not unearned money that you're after. You want handouts, but of a different kind. I'm a gold-digger of the spirit, you said, be cause I look for value. Then you, the welfare preachers... it's the spirit that you want to loot. I never thought and nobody ever told us how it could be though t of and what it would meanthe unearned in spirit. But that is what you want. You want unearned love. You want unearned admiration. You want unearned greatness. You want to be a man like Hank Rearden without the necessity of being what he is . Without the necessity of being anything. Without... the necessity... of being. " | P3C1 (Cherryl Taggart to Jim Taggart) ...a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, no t the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and rea son accepts no commandments. | P3C7 "I do not wish to work in a world that regards me as a slave. I do not wish to b e of any value to people. If I succeeded in rebuilding the motor, I would not le t you place it in their service. I would not take it upon my conscience that any thing produced by my mind should be used to bring them comfort." (2.9.1.151) - Q uentin Daniels, Atlas Shrugged "There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of

theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebod y will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that th at's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all you r laws and gunsjust somebody naming the exact nature of what it is you're doing?" | P2C2 That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. T he important thing about you is what you choose to make happenyour values and cho ices. That which happened by accidentwhat family you were born into, in what coun try, and where you went to schoolis totally unimportant. "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned ben efit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." | Capitalism: Th e Unknown Ideal "Only a ghost can exist without material property; only a slave can work with no right to the product of his effort. The doctrine that 'human rights' are superi or to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to ma ke property out of others; since the competent have nothing to gain from the inc ompetent, it means the right of the incompetent to own their betters and to use them as productive cattle." | P3C7 "Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," r egardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme abou t, but that you are "extreme"i.e., consistent)." | The Virtue of Selfishness "We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doo med to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do n ot live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have sp ecific reason to expect it - and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success , but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life." | P3C2 They're all aristocrats, that's true... because they know that there's no such th ing as a lousy jobonly lousy men who don't care to do it. | P3C1 'Public welfare' is the welfare of those who do not earn it; those who do, are en titled to no welfare. | Atlas Shrugged

. "As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul." | P 3C7 People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is th at a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to t he person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be fak ed. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie - the price one pays is th e destruction of that which was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world , is the world's slave from then on. | P3C3

" , . , "A contradiction cannot exist. An atom is itself, and so is the universe; neithe r can contradict its own identity; nor can a part contradict the whole. No conce pt man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the tot al sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in ones thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate ones mind and to evict o neself from the realm of reality." | P3C7

I am. I think. I will. My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine. . . . What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer. I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wishe d to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant fo r being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I a m the warrant and the sanction. It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eye s grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ea rs gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which cho oses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. Many words hav e been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are hol y: "I will it!" Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. Th ey point to me. I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the uni verse or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care no t. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is t he end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Anthem Ch 11 Ayn Rand "It is not any crime you have ever committed that infects your soul with permane nt guilt, it is none of your failures, errors or flaws, but the blank-out by whi ch you attempt to evade themit is not any sort of Original Sin or unknown prenata l deficiency, but the knowledge and fact of your basic default, of suspending yo ur mind, of refusing to think. Fear and guilt are your chronic emotions, they ar e real and you do deserve them, but they dont come from the superficial reasons y ou invent to disguise their cause, not from your selfishness, weakness or ignoranc e, but from a real and basic threat to your existence: fear, because you have ab andoned your weapon of survival, guilt, because you know you have done it voliti onally." | Atlas Shrugged "A 'standard' is an abstract principle that serves as a measurement or gauge to guide a man's choices in the achievement of a concrete, specific purpose." | The Objectivist Ethics "What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can d o it: either by producing more or by producing it faster. And that's what I'm do ing: I'm manufacturing time... I'm producing everything I need, I'm working to i mprove my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life." | P3C1 "A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of mans self-defense , and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of forc e. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you fro m criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle di sputes by rational rules, according to objective law." | P3C7 "It is your mind that they want you to surrenderall those who preach the creed of sacrifice, whatever their tags or their motives, whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body, whether they promise you another life in hea ven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish t o pursue your own wishes, you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions, you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.'" | P3C7 "Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have n o value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud..." | P3C7

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral inte grity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement o f your values." | For The New Intellectual ...an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capac ity to distinguish truth from error. | P3C7 "There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards." | P3C7 "Now that you know the truth about your world, stop supporting your own destroye rs. The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Withdraw your sanction. Withdraw your support. Do not try to live on your en emies' terms or to win at a game where they're setting the rules. Do not seek th e favor of those who enslaved you...theirs is a system of white blackmail devise d to bleed you not by means of your sins but by means of your love for existence ." - John Galt "Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not 'the absence of pain,' intelligence is not 'the absence of stupidity,' light is not 'the abs ence of darkness,' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is no t done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such a bstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing. . . . Existence is not a negation of negatives." | P3C7 "Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the li mit of your life." | P3C7 "Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish." | P3C1 Every man builds his world in his own image... He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. | P3C7 Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but it's only the degre e to which he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise. ...when you live in a rational society, where men are free to trade, you receive an incalculable bonus:the material value of your work is determined not only by your effort, but by the effort of the best productive minds who exist in the wor ld around you. | P3C7 "It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who s tarts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy de struction." | P3C7

, , , "Caused by a profound self-doubt, self-condemnation and fear, hostility is a typ e of projection that directs toward other people the hatred which the hostile pe rson feels toward himself. Blaming the evil of others for his own shortcomings, he feels a chronic need to justify himself by demonstrating their evil, by seeki ng it, by hunting for itand by inventing it." | The Objectivist

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- - ? - , . -----------------------------------------------Q: What's the most depraved type of human being? A: The man without a purpose. "If a man proposes to redistribute wealth, he means explicitly and necessarily t hat the wealth is his to distribute. If he proposes it in the name of the govern ment, then the wealth belongs to the government; if in the name of society, then it belongs to society. No one, to my knowledge, did or could define a differenc e between that proposal and the basic principle of communism." | The Ayn Rand Le tter "They claim that they perceive a mode of being superior to your existence on thi s earth. The mystics of spirit call it another dimension, which consists of denyin g dimensions. The mystics of muscle call it the future, which consists of denying the present. To exist is to possess identity. What identity are they able to giv e to their superior realm? They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is. All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they sayand proceed to demand that you consider it knowl edgeGod is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definition s are not acts of defining, but of wiping out." | P3C7 What is morality? Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

" , . , , , , - "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to cr ack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kinds of laws that can neither be ob served nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, th at's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." | Dr. Floyd Ferris, P2C3 "Honor is self-esteem made visible in action." | Philosophy: Who Needs It "A whim is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause." | The Virtue of Selfishness "Tactfulness is consideration extended only to rational feelings. A tactful man does not stress his success or happiness in the presence of those who have suffe red failure, loss or unhappiness; not because he suspects them of envy, but beca use he realizes that the contrast can revive and sharpen their pain. He does not stress his virtues in anyones presence: he takes for granted that they are recog nized." | The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution "Here, we trade achievements, not failuresvalues, not needs. We're free of one an other, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wealth is there tha n to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish." | Ellis Wyatt, P3C1

"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul--would you understand why that's much harder?" Howard Roark, to Peter Keating