Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions