atlas-shrugged

They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.___ut it__ true...I am, in the sense they mean__nly have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?___henever anyone accuses some person of being __nfeeling,_ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .__o feel_ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being __nfeeling,_ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .__o feel_ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of what would bring human beings to such a state __ndifference, because she could not regard those who reached it, as human any longer.

While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistake of thinking that this means the necessity to worship Mankind (as a collective). These are two entirely different conceptions, with entirely - (immensely and diametrically opposed) - different consequences.

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that__ through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality__ou who have never known any__ut to discover it.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don__.

...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man__ foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.