It is the same thing with society. When it allows itself to be turned into a perfect organization of power, then there are few crimes which it is unable to perpetrate.


“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“When we saw a river, we had to stop so they could stand by it and think about it for a while.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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