I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, …

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I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.170, Penguin
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I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.170, Penguin

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