I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine. β¨ Ayn Rand (2005). Atlas Shrugged, p.1006, Penguin
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- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. β¨ Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)
- To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. β¨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.435, Penguin
- The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body. β¨ Ayn Rand (1984). Philosophy: Who Needs It, p.176, Penguin
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