Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means tha…

Ayn Rand
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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). Atlas Shrugged, p.842, Penguin
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