The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
Ayn RandEven if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
Ayn RandJust as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Ayn RandLove is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand