What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
Ayn RandCollectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.
Ayn RandShe stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.
Ayn RandIt is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
Ayn Rand