No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
Ayn RandI understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
Ayn RandThe lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.
Ayn Rand