Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.
If that__ the price of getting together, then I__l be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can__ be punished for being good. One can__ be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we__ better start slaughtering one another, because there isn__ any right at all in the world!
Atlas Shrugged
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If that__ the price of getting together, then I__l be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can__ be punished for being good. One can__ be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we__ better start slaughtering one another, because there isn__ any right at all in the world!
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