A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-a…

Ayn Rand
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A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.32, Penguin
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