It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn RandThe only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Ayn RandDid it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.
Ayn RandIf you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.
Ayn RandWhat do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.
Ayn RandWhy have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because Iโm not the Gail Wynand youโd heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love youโd want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because thatโs the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception youโd want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldnโt be easy for you.
Ayn Rand