Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.
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I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.
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